Position/Designation
Professor 9
Deputy DIrector for Research and Development
Educational Background
PhD (2009)
Kanazawa University, Japan
MS Geology (2006)
University of the Philippines
BS Geology (2002)
University of the Philippines
Research Interests
Igneous Petrology and Geochemistry
Selected Publications
Theophilus, G., Payot, B. D., Kawakami, T., Sakata, S., Sota Niki, & Hirata, T., 2026. From spreading to subduction: Timelines of induced subduction zones recorded in the Central Palawan Ophiolite. Lithos, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2025.108346
Yu, Y., Huang, X., Payot, B. D., Liu, H., Jiang, Y., Wang, Y., Dimalanta, C. B., Ou, X., Valera, G. T. V., Yang, F., Yumul, G. P., Xu, Y., & Tang, X., 2026. Ba isotope unmasks recycling processes of fluid mobile elements in subduction zones. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2026.01.038
Sangalang, K.J., Novero, M.J., Gabo-Ratio, J.A., Payot, B.D., Dimalanta, C.B., Alcancia, M.L., Jabagat, K.D.,Lee, H.Y. (2025)., 2025. Evaluating the Neogene paleoclimatic record of northwestern Luzon from paleoweathering proxies. Geoscience Letters, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-025-00389-3
Arenque, L. A., Gabo-Ratio, J. A., Payot, B. D., Guzman, J. T., & Yonezu, K., 2025. Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Paranas karst bauxite deposit of Samar Island, Philippines. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1517/1/012040
Novero, M. J., Sangalang, K. J., Gabo-Ratio, J. A., Dimalanta, C., Betchaida Payot, Jabagat, K., & Lee, Y.-H., 2025. Arc polarity reversal in North Luzon preserved in the Oligocene–Miocene clastic units in southwestern Mountain Province, Philippines: insights from trace element geochemistry, microfossil ages, and zircon U–Pb dating. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-025-00442-1
Soberano, N. P. L., Payot, B. D., Valera, G. T. V., & Olfindo, V. S. V., 2025. Metasomatic enrichment of the sub-arc mantle: Evidence from the petrography and geochemistry of the xenolith-bearing andesites from Dinem Island, Batanes. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.105999
Novero, M. J., Sangalang, K. J., Gabo-Ratio, J. A., Dimalanta, C., Payot, B., Garcia, M. Y. R., Amoroso, J.A. V., Manalo, P., & Takahashi, R., 2024. Unlocking clues on the provenance of the Zigzag Formation in Mountain Province, Northern Luzon, Philippines using sedimentary geochemistry. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1373/1/012069
Ausejo, J.M., Perez, A., Pasco, J., Payot, B., 2024. Melt generation and magma storage conditions of primitive arc lavas in the Macolod Corridor, southwestern Luzon arc, Philippines. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108206
Gabo-Ratio, J. A., Arenque, L. A., Payot, B., Balela, M. D., Vegafria, M. C., Guzman, J., Manalo, P. C., & Tungpalan, D. K. (2024). Melt generation and magma storage conditions of primitive arc lavas in the Macolod Corridor, southwestern Luzon arc, Philippines. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108206
Parcutela, N. E., Austria, R. S., Dimalanta, C. B., Valera, G. T. V., Gabo-Ratio, J. A. S., Payot, B. D., Armada, L. T., Sangalang, K. J. F., Yumul Jr., G. P., 2023. Frontiers in Earth Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1107833
Pasco, J. A., Payot, B., Valera, G., Dycoco, J., Labis, F., Tamura, A., & Morishita, T., 2023. From rifting to emplacement: Variable mantle melting preserved in the central Palawan Ophiolite peridotites, Philippines. International Geology Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2023.2191347
Austria, R.SP., Armada, L.T., Parcutela, N.E., Dimalanta, C.B., Payot, B.D., Valera, G.T.V., Reyes, E.M.L., Yumul, G.P., 2023. The Macolod Corridor (Philippines)–A passive rift compensated by ponded magmas?. Tectonophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229965
Valera, G. T. V., Kawakami, T. Payot, B. D., 2022. The slab-mantle wedge interface of an incipient subduction zone: Insights from the P-T-D evolution and petrological characteristics of the Dalrymple Amphibolite, Palawan Ophiolite, Philippines. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12644
Valera, G. T. V., Kawakami, T., Payot, B, D., 2022. Mixing, fluid infiltration, leaching, and deformation (MILD) processes on the slab-mantle wedge interface at high T and P conditions: Records from the Dalrymple Amphibolite, Philippines. Chemical Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.120941
Liu, H.-Q., Li, J., Xu, Y.-G., Yumul, G. P., Knittel, U., Dimalanta, C. B., Payot, B. D., Queaño, K., Huang, X.-L., & Zhang, L., 2022. Heavy Mo isotope composition of northern Bataan adakites, Philippines: Evidence for fore-arc subduction erosion?. Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G50465.1
Payot, B. D., Ishimaru, S., Tamura, A., Dimalanta, C. B., Yumul, G. P. Jr., Arai, S., 2021. Remarkably fresh abyssal peridotites from Sibuyan island, Romblon Island Group, Philippines: Markers of young arc-continent collision, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2021.100051
Payot, B. D., Rau, R.-J., 2021. Preface for the “Evolution of arc systems: New findings and perspectives” special issue. Preface for the “Evolution of arc systems: New findings and perspectives” special issue, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2021.100058
Labis, F. A.C., Payot, B. D., Valera, G. T. V., Pasco, J. A., Dycoco, J. M. A., Tamura, A., Morishita, T., & Arai, S., 2021. Melt-rock interaction in the subarc mantle: records from the plagioclase peridotites of the southern Palawan Ophiolite, Philippines. International Geology Review, DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2020.1746930.
Dycoco, J. M. A., Payot, B. D., Valera, G. T. V., Labis, F. A. C., Pasco, J. A., Perez, A. D. C., Tani, K., 2021. Juxtaposition of Cenozoic and Mesozoic ophiolites in Palawan island, Philippines: New insights on the evolution of the Proto-South China Sea. Tectonophysics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229085
Yumul, G. P., Jr., Dimalanta, C. B., Salapare, R. C., Queño, K. L., Faustino-Eslava, D. V., Marquez, E. J., Ramos, N. T., Payot, B. D., Guotana, J. M. R., Gabo-Ratio, J. A. S., Armada, L. T., Padrones, J. T., Ishida, K., Suzuki, S., 2020. Slab rollback and microcontinent subduction in the evolution of the Zambales Ophiolite Complex (Philippines): A review. GeoScience Frontiers, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2018.12.008
Dimalanta, C. B., Faustino-Eslava, D. V., Gabo-Ratio, J. A. S., Marquez, E. J., Padrones, J. T., Payot, B. D., Queaño, K. L., Ramos, N. T., Yumul, G. P. Jr., 2020. Characterization of the proto-Philippine Sea Plate: Evidence from the emplaced oceanic lithosphere fragments along eastern Philippines. GeoScience Frontiers, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2019.01.005
Yumul, G.P., Jr., Dimalanta, C.B., Gabo-Ratio, J.A. S., Queaño, K. L., Armada, L. T., Padrones, J. T., Faustino-Eslava, D. V., Payot, B. D., Marquez, E. J., 2020. Mesozoic rock suites along western Philippines: Exposed proto-South China Sea fragments. Eurasian Journal of Soil Science, Volume 9, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 282-291.
Armada, L., Dimalanta, C., Parcutela, N., Austria, R., Padrones, J., Payot, B., Queaño, K., and Yumul, G. Jr., 2020. Bouguer Anomaly of Central Cebu, Philippines. Journal of Maps, https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2020.1791270
Queaño, K.L., Yumul, G. P..Jr., Marquez, E. J., Gabo-Ratio, J. A., Payot, B. D., Dimalanta, C.B., 2020. Consumed tectonic plates in Southeast Asia: Markers from the Mesozoic to early Cenozoic stratigraphic units in the northern and central Philippines. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2020.100033
Gabo-Ratio, J.A., Buena, A.E., Villaplaza, B.R.B., Payot, B.D., Dimalanta, C.B., Queaño, K.L., Andal, E.S. and Yumul, G.P.Jr., 2020. Epithermal mineralization of the Bonanza-Sandy gold vein, Masara Gold District, Mindanao, Philippines. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, https://doi/10.1016/j.jaesx.2020.100041
Olfindo, V.S.V.O., Payot, B.D., Valera, G.T.V. and Arai, S., 2020. Petrogenesis of heterogeneous mantle peridotites with Ni-rich olivine from the Pujada Ophiolite, Philippines. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences: X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2020.100039
Buena, A. E., Villaplaza, B. R. B., Payot, B. D., Gabo-Ratio, J. A. S., Ramos, N. T., Faustino-Eslava, D. V. , Queaño, K. L., Dimalanta, C. B., Padrones, J. T., Tani, K., Brown, W. W., Yumul, G. P. Jr., 2019. An evolving subduction-related magmatic system in the Masara Gold district, Eastern Mindanao, Philippines. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaesx.2019.100007
Valera, G.T.V., Payot, B. D., Arai, S. Takeuchi, M., Ishimaru, S. Tamura, A., 2019. Petrologic nature of the active subarc crust-mantle boundary: Mixed magmatic-metasomatic processes recorded in xenoliths from Sabtang Island, Luzon arc. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.02.010
Pasco, J. A. , Dycoco, J. M. A. , Valera, G. T. V. , Payot, B. D., Pillejera, J. D. B., Uy, F. A. A. E., Armada, L. T., Dimalanta, C. B., 2019. Petrogenesis of ultramafic-mafic clasts in the Dos Hermanos Mélange, Ilocos: Norte: Insights to the evolution of western Luzon, Philippines. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104004
Olfindo, V. S. V. , Payot, B. D., Valera, G. T. V., Gadot, E. G. Jr., Villaplaza, B. R. B., Tani, K, Dimalanta, C. B., Yumul, G. P. Jr., 2019. Petrographic and geochemical characterization of the crustal section of the Pujada Ophiolite, southeastern Mindanao, Philippines: Insights to the tectonic evolution of the northern Molucca Sea Collision Complex. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.103994
Guotana, J.M.R., Payot, B.D., Dimalanta, C.B., Ramos, N.T., Faustino-Eslava, D.V., Queaño, K.L., Yumul G.P. Jr., 2018. Petrological and geochemical characteristics of the Samar Ophiolite ultramafic section: implications on the origins of the ophiolites in Samar and Leyte islands, Philippines. International Geology Review, Volume 60, Issue 4, Pages 401-417
https://10.1080/00206814.2017.1336944
Payot, B.D., Arai, S., Yoshikawa, M., Taura, A., Okuno, M., Rivera, D.J.V., 2018. Mantle evolution from ocean to arc: The record of spinel peridotite xenoliths in Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines. Minerals, https://doi.org/10.3390/min8110515
Guotana, J.M.R., Payot, B.D., Dimalanta, C.B., Ramos, N.T., Faustino-Eslava, D.V., Queaño, K.L. and Yumul, G.P.Jr. 2017. Arc and backarc geochemical signatures of the proto-Philippine Sea Plate: Insights from the petrography and geochemistry of the Samar Ophiolite volcanic section. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 142, 77-92. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.07.031.
Guotana, J.M.R., Payot, B.D., Dimalanta, C.B., Ramos, N.T., Faustino-Eslava, D.V., Queaño, K.L. and Yumul, G.P.Jr. 2017. Petrological and geochemical characteristics of the Samar Ophiolite ultramafic section: implications on the origins of the ophiolites in Samar and Leyte islands, Philippines. International Geology Review. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2017.1336944.
Pacle, N.A.D., Dimalanta, C.B., Ramos, N.T., Payot, B.D., Faustino-Eslava, D.V. and Yumul, G.P.Jr. 2017. Petrography and geochemistry of Cenozoic sedimentary sequences of the southern Samar Island, Philippines: Clues to the unroofing history of an ancient subduction zone. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 142, 3-19. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.07.030.
Yumul, G.P.Jr., Brown, W.W., Dimalanta, C.B., Ausa, C.A., Faustino-Eslava, D.V., Payot, B.D., Ramos, N.T., Lizada, A.N.L., Buena, A.E., Villaplaza, B.R.B., Manalo, P.C., Queaño, K.L., Guotana, J.M.R. and Pacle, N.A.D. 2017. Adakitic rocks in the Masara gold-silver mine, Compostela Valley, Mindanao, Philippines: Different places, varying mechanisms? Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 142, 45-55. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.06.005.
Payot, B.D., Arai, S., Dick, H.J.B., Abe, N., Ichiyama, Y., 2014. Podiform chromitite formation in a low-Cr/high-Al system: An example from the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR). Mineral. Petrol. 108, 533–549. doi:10.1007/s00710-013-0317-z
Payot, B. D., Jego, S., Maury, R. C., Polve, M., Gregoire, M., Ceuleneer, G., Tamayo, R. A., Yumul, G. P., Bellon, H. and Cotten, J. (2007), The oceanic substratum of Northern Luzon: Evidence from xenoliths within Monglo adakite (the Philippines). Island Arc, 16: 276–290. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.2007.00574.x