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Keenan and Encarnación suggest that the absence of pre-subduction inception basement in the drill core data taken from site U1438 raises ambiguity in our conclusion of spontaneous subduction initiation in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana system1. However, there is no evidence for uplift in the earliest products of the Izu–Bonin–Mariana system preceding rifting preserved anywhere in the region. Three sub-parallel ridges — from north to south, the Amami plateau, Daito and Oki-Daito ridges (Fig. 1 from ref. 1) — comprise magmatic products of Mesozoic–Tertiary arcs formed prior to the Izu–Bonin–Mariana system. These ridges generally strike east–west orthogonally to the Kyushu–Palau ridge — the earliest stratovolcano chain of the Izu–Bonin–Mariana system. If compression preceded inception, as implied by the forced subduction model2, we anticipate uplift of the old arc ridges, diminishing in effect westwards, and sediment shedding from uplifted regions into adjacent basins.

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  1. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

    Richard J. Arculus & Philipp A. Brandl

  2. Geological Survey of Japan/AIST, Central 7 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8567, Japan

    Osamu Ishizuka

  3. Research and Development Center for Ocean Drilling Science, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan

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  4. International Ocean Discovery Program, Texas A&M University, 1000 Discovery Drive, College Station, 77845-9547, Texas, USA

    Kara A. Bogus

  5. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 2520-21, Pasadena, 91125, California, USA

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  7. Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, 108 Carraway Building, Woodward Street, Tallahassee, 32306-0001, Florida, USA

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  8. Center for Energy Geoscience, School of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, 6009, Western Australia, Australia

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  9. Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, 723 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, 46202, Indiana, USA

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  10. Geozentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten 5, Erlangen, 91054, Germany

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  13. Department of Solid Earth Geochemistry, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan

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