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Active icdp Projects

...multidisciplinary projects at world-class geological sites

Active drilling projects, in Operational Phase and Moratorium Phase are displayed here. For details on these stages, refer to the ICDP Primer. Map is not synchronized with data table below it. No science workshops - those can be either "upcoming" or "held".

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#AcronymProject NameProject CountryCurrent StateGeologic AgeProposedProject ThemeProject DurationExpedition IdProject LocationProject Start DateProposal ID
1BVDPThe Bushveld Complex Drilling ProjectSouth AfricaOperational PhaseLate Archean2019Geodynamic Processes4Africa, South Africa, Bushveld2020 (Oct)ICDP-2019/04
2SWAIS 2CSensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees CelsiusAntarcticaOperational PhaseNeogene - Quaternary2021Environmental Change4Kamb Ice StreamICDP-2021/03
3WEIHEWeihe Basin Deep Drilling Project (Phase I) Mio-Pleistocene Asian hydroclimate variability and dynamicsP.R. ChinaOperational PhaseCenozoic2022Environmental Change4Weihe BasinICDP-2022/02
4GOE-DEEPGabon and Oxygenation of Earth – Drilling Early Earth ProjectGabonOperational PhasePaleoproterozoic2024Geodynamic Processes4FrancevilleICDP-2024/03
5TADPTrans-Amazon Drilling ProjectBrazilMoratorium PhaseCenozoic2017Environmental Change4South America, Brazil, Amazon2018 (Nov)ICDP-2017/01
6NamCoreThe Nam Co Drilling Project, Tibet (NamCore): A one million year sedimentary record from the third poleP.R. ChinaMoratorium PhaseQuaternary2020Environmental Change4Nam CoICDP-2020/05