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...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.

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#AcronymProject NameProject CountryCurrent StateGeologic AgeProposedProject ThemeProject DurationExpedition IdProject LocationProject Start DateProposal ID
1TADPTrans-Amazon Drilling ProjectBrazilOperational PhaseCenozoic2017Environmental Change4South America, Brazil, Amazon2018 (Nov)ICDP-2017/01
2BVDPThe Bushveld Complex Drilling Project (BVDP)South AfricaOperational PhaseLate Archean2019Geodynamic Processes4Africa, South Africa, Bushveld2020 (Oct)ICDP-2019/04
3SWAIS 2CSensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius (SWAIS 2C)AntarcticaOperational PhaseNeogene - Quaternary2021Environmental Change4Kamb Ice StreamICDP-2021/03
4WEIHEWeihe Basin Deep Drilling Project (Phase I) Mio-Pleistocene Asian hydroclimate variability and dynamicsP.R. ChinaOperational PhaseCenozoic2022Environmental Change4Weihe BasinICDP-2022/02
5GOE-DEEPGabon and Oxygenation of Earth – Drilling Early Earth ProjectGabonOperational PhasePaleoproterozoic2024Geodynamic Processes4FrancevilleICDP-2024/03
6GRINDGeological Research through Integrated Neoproterozoic Drilling: The Ediacaran-Cambrian TransitionBZ,CN,NamibiaMoratorium PhaseNeoproterozoic2018Geodynamic Processes; Environmental Change4South America, Brazil, Africa, Namibia, Asia, China2018 (Mar)ICDP-2018/08
7NamCoreThe Nam Co Drilling Project, Tibet (NamCore): A one million year sedimentary record from the third poleP.R. ChinaMoratorium PhaseQuaternary2020Environmental Change4Nam CoICDP-2020/05
8DIVE; IVREADrilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE (DIVE)ItalyMoratorium PhasePre-Permian lower crust2020Geohazards4Southern AlpsICDP-2020/04