[DIVE] DIVE - Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE

ICDP-Topics:
Climate & Ecosystems


Year of Application: 2016

Expedition ID: 5071

Current Status: Workshop

Europe
Europe, Italy, continental crust, Moho transition zone, seismic structure, rock physics
Italy
Moho transition zone
continental crust
rock physics
seismic structure
Master Data

Prof. Dr. Mark Handy (PI)
Prof. Dr. Michael Weber (PI)
Dr. Luca Ziberna (PI)
Dr. Simona Pierdominici (PI)

Projektstart: 1 October, 2022
Projektdauer:
Geologisches Alter: Permian/Pre-Permian Lower Crust

Latitude: 45°55'59''N
Kontinente:

Europe

Regionen & Städte:

Longitude: 8°31'20''E
Länder:

Italy

Themen:

Drilling Data

Drilling Depth: 578.5
Core Yield: 99.99
Core Length: 578.44
Amount of Drill Holes: 1
Amount of Drill Locations: 1

Core Length-Drill Depth-Ratio: 99.99
Core Yield-Core Length-Ratio: 99.99

Description

Planning and preparing a full drilling of the continental lower crust into the Moho transition zone in the Ivrea-Verbano Zone (IVZ) in the Southern Alps in Italy. The geophysical data show that the IVZ is unique in that the Moho transition zone can be followed from the Po Plain at ~30 km depth to about 15 km in the IVZ where it reaches at a dip of more than 45°. The IVZ is one of the classic cross sections of the lower continental crust. Recent discoveries illustrate that the IVZ is a precious archive of continental magmatism documenting lower crustal processes of magma emplacement, crystallisation, and crustal assimilation, and the development of near surface magmatism including evidence of super-eruptions during a protracted time in the Permian. Drilling the IVZ would provide a unique and continuous set of geochemical, structural, and geophysical data on the nature of the continental lower crust and the crust-mantle transition, the construction and organisation of a deep crustal magmatic system, and the physical conditions (i.e. magma fluxes, magma/country rock rheology, density, seismic velocities). Drilling will additionally investigate heat production and distribution of heat producing elements across a continuous, finely banded sequence of lower crustal rocks, major pre-Alpine and Alpine crustal shear zones, present-day alteration processes, fluid compositions, and its relationships to the major orogenic fault structure of the Alps, the Insubric Line.

Related Publications

Trond Ryberg, Christian Haberland, Britta Wawerzinek, Manfred Stiller, Klaus Bauer, Alberto Zanetti, Luca Ziberna, György Hetényi, Othmar Müntener, Michael M. Weber, Charlotte Krawczyk (2023). "3-D imaging of the Balmuccia peridotite body (Ivrea–Verbano zone, NW-Italy) using controlled source seismic data" Geophysical Journal International 234 p1985-1998


Hetényi, György, Molinari, Irene, Clinton, John, Bokelmann, Götz, Bondár, István, Crawford, Wayne C., Dessa, Jean-Xavier, Doubre, Cécile, Friederich, Wolfgang, Fuchs, Florian, Giardini, Domenico, Gráczer, Zoltán, Handy, Mark R., Herak, Marijan, Jia, Yan, Kissling, Edi, Kopp, Heidrun, Korn, Michael, Margheriti, Lucia, Meier, Thomas, Mucciarelli, Marco, Paul, Anne, Pesaresi, Damiano, Piromallo, Claudia, Plenefisch, Thomas, Plomerová, Jaroslava, Ritter, Joachim, Rümpker, Georg, Šipka, Vesna, Spallarossa, Daniele, Thomas, Christine, Tilmann, Frederik, Wassermann, Joachim, Weber, Michael, Wéber, Zoltán, AlpArray Seismic Network, Team, Ethz-Sed Electronics Lab, AlpArray, O. B. S. Cruise Crew, AlpArray Working, Group, et al. (2018). "The AlpArray Seismic Network: A Large-Scale European Experiment to Image the Alpine Orogen" Surveys in Geophysics 39 p1009-1033


Pistone, M., Müntener, O., Ziberna, L., Hetényi, G., Zanetti, A. (2017). "Report on the ICDP workshop DIVE (Drilling the Ivrea–Verbano zonE)" Scientific Drilling 23 p47-56