87. Perez, A., Umino, S., Yumul Jr., G.P., and Ishizuka, O., 2018. Boninite and boninite-series volcanics in northern Zambales ophiolite: doubly-vergent subduction initiation along Philippine Sea Plate margins. Solid Earth, 9, 713-733, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-713-2018.

A key component of subduction initiation rock suites is boninite, a high-magnesium andesite that is uniquely predominant in Western Pacific forearc terranes and in select Tethyan ophiolites such as Oman and Troodos. We report for the first time the discovery of low-calcium, high-silica boninite in the middle Eocene Zambales ophiolite (Luzon island, Philippines). Olivine-orthopyroxene microphyric high-silica boninite, olivine-clinopyroxene-phyric low-silica boninite and boninitic basalt occur as lapilli fall deposits and pillow lava flows in the upper volcanic unit of the juvenile arc section (Barlo locality, Acoje Block) of the Zambales ophiolite. This upper volcanic unit in turn overlies a lower volcanic unit consisting of basaltic andesite, andesite to dacitic lavas and explosive eruptives (subaqueous pahoehoe and lobate sheet flows, agglutinate, and spatter deposits) forming a low-silica boninite series. The overall volcanic stratigraphy of the extrusive sequence at Barlo resembles Holes U1439 and U1442 drilled by IODP Expedition 352 in the Izu-Ogasawara (Bonin) trench slope. The presence of depleted proto-arc basalts in Coto Block (45 Ma) (Geary et al., Tectonophysics 168(1), 43-63, 1989), boninite and boninite series volcanics in Barlo, Acoje Block (44 Ma) and simultaneous and post-boninite moderate-Fe arc tholeiites in Sual and Subic, Acoje Block (44-43 Ma) indicate that the observed subduction initiation stratigraphy in the Izu-Ogasawara-Mariana forearc is present in the Zambales ophiolite as well. Paleolatitudes derived from tilt-corrected sites in the Acoje Block place the juvenile arc of northern Zambales ophiolite in the western margin of the Philippine Sea Plate. In this scenario, the origin of Philippine Sea Plate boninites (IBM and Zambales) would be in a doubly-vergent subduction initiation setting.

Keywords: ophiolite, Zambales, Acoje, Coto, Philippines Sea Plate, subduction initiation, boninite

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