The Geology and
Structures of San Ildefonso Peninsula,
Casiguran, Aurora Province:
Their Relation to the Northern Sierra Madre Orogeny
Elmer B. Billedo, Gloria C. Ancheta, M. Antonette A. Beroya,
Ronald C. Luis,
Juana P. Macawili, Edanjarlo J. Marquez, Emadelyn B.
Monsanto,
Karlo L. Queano, and Cliff L. Querubin
ABSTRACT
Geological field investigation in San
lldefonso Peninsula, Northeastern Luzon
reveals the presence of Late Mesozoic
ophiolitic and volcanogenic basement
rocks. Results from our structural
analysis show that these genetically
diverse rock units were juxtaposed prior
to the installation of an Eocene
magmatic arc. The Late Mesozoic and
Eocene age rocks are in turn
unconformably covered by a late
Oligocene sedimentary sequence. Our
field observations and new
paleontological results lead us to
propose a structural evolution of the
San lldefonso Peninsula, taking into
account the available data on the
Northern Sierra Madre orogeny. The main
structural events are: A) the obduction
of the Dibut Bay Meta-ophiolite during
the early late Cretaceous (~92 Ma), B)
the regional metamorphism affecting the
Late Cretaceous volcanic arc sequence
from Paleocene to Early Eocene. C) the
folding of the Eocene volcanic arc
sequence contemporaneous with the uplift
of the optiiolitic materials during the
Early Oligocene (pre-late Oligocene) and
D) the minor strike-slip movements along
the Divilacan Fault Zone before the
Middle Miocene.
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