Project DIVE (Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE) is a multidisciplinary international collaboration to probe the continental lower crust and its transition to the mantle through scientific drilling in the Ivrea-Verbano zone (IVZ), Italian Alps. The project is run under the financial and operational support of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP).

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Examples of scientific drilling projects and how ICDP works, source: www.icdp-online.org