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The petrogenesis of volcanics from Mt. Bulusan and Mt. Mayon in the Bicol arc, the Philippines

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Pliocene to recent volcanic rocks from the Bulusan volcanic complex in the southern part of the Bicol arc (Philippines) exhibit a wide compositional range (medium- to high-K basaltic-andesites, andesites and a dacite/rhyolite suite), but are characterised by large ion lithophile element enrichments and HFS element depletions typical of subduction-related rocks. Field, petrographic and geochemical data indicate that the more silicic syn- and post-caldera magmas have been influenced by intracrustal processes such as magma mixing and fractional crystallisation. However, the available data indicate that the Bicol rocks as a group exhibit relatively lower and less variable 87Sr/86Sr ratios (0.7036–0.7039) compared with many of the other subduction-related volcanics from the Philippine archipelago. The Pb isotope ratios of the Bicol volcanics appear to be unlike those of other Philippine arc segments. They typically plot within and below the data field for the Philippine Sea Basin on 207Pb/204Pb versus 206Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb versus 206Pb/204Pb diagrams, implying a pre-subduction mantle wedge similar to that sampled by the Palau Kyushu Ridge, east of the Philippine Trench. 143Nd/144Nd ratios are moderately variable (0.51285–0.51300). Low silica (<55 wt%) samples that have lower 143Nd/144Nd tend to have high Th/Nd, high Th/Nb, and moderately low Ce/Ce* ratios. Unlike some other arc segments in the Philippines (e.g. the Babuyan-Taiwan segment), there is little evidence for the involvement of subducted terrigenous sediment. Instead, the moderately low 143Nd/144Nd ratios in some of the Bicol volcanics may result from subduction of pelagic sediment (low Ce/Ce*, high Th/Nd, and high Th/Nb) and its incorporation into the mantle wedge via a slab-derived partial melt.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Pat Castillo for a pre-print of a manuscript on the Mt. Mayon volcanics and for permission to refer to the data contained therein. FMcD gratefully acknowledges support from a University College Dublin Newman Scholarship during the early stages of this study. We acknowledge the thorough and constructive reviews by John Maclennan and an anonymous reviewer that greatly improved the manuscript.

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    Frank McDermott

  2. School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA

    Francisco G. Delfin Jr.

  3. Department of Geology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA

    Marc J. Defant

  4. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Simon Turner

  5. CNRS-UMR 6538, IUEM, Universite Bretagne Occidentale, 29280, Plouzane, France

    Rene Maury

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McDermott, F., Jr., F.G.D., Defant, M.J. et al. The petrogenesis of volcanics from Mt. Bulusan and Mt. Mayon in the Bicol arc, the Philippines. Contrib Mineral Petrol 150, 652–670 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-005-0042-7

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