Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE: DIVE 1 – Operational Dataset

The Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE (DIVE) project, run as ICDP expedition 5071, aims at studying the lower continental crust (LCC) towards and across the Moho transition zone. The study area provides unique access to a section of the LCC with well-preserved structural relationships. Two drilling targets were selected from this zone for scientific investigations, which, in combination, reveal significant aspects of its geologic history. The goals of the project are primarily petrological-geochemical, geophysical, structural, microbiological, and focusing on natural gases. Two boreholes have been successfully drilled in project DIVE 1: first 5071_1_B near Ornavasso in 2022, then 5071_1_A in Megolo in 2023-2024.

This data publication provides the operational dataset of the ICDP project DIVE (ICDP 5071). The dataset is documented by the Explanatory Remarks (https://doi.org/10.48440/ICDP.5071.002).