Magnetism in Iberia: results and new frontiers

Abstract

[EN]This special volume of Journal of Iberian Geology brings together a set of articles selected from the presentations given at the XIII MAGIBER congress, a meeting held at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto from the 25th to the 28th of July 2023. The organization of the meeting was led by colleagues of this university and of the neighbouring Institute of Earth Sciences in close collaboration with the Paleomagnetic Commission of the Geological Society of Spain, and was dedicated to the general theme of “Magnetism in Iberia: Results and New Frontiers”. The meeting brought together more than 50 researchers and students from Portugal and Spain, allowing everyone who works in the field of paleo- and geomagnetism to share their results and research activities (Fig. 1). The laid-back atmosphere of the meeting favoured the strengthening of existing collaborations and the development of new partnerships between scientists of the two countries, reaffirming that Geosciences have no borders. The topics addressed during the meeting included the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, geomagnetism, rock and environmental magnetism, archaeomagnetism, paleomagnetism, magnetostratigraphy and magnetotectonics, in what is a clear presentation of the multidisciplinary character of the discipline and of the scientific community involved in the meeting. The congress included two days of oral and poster presentations, a hands-on workshop on the applications and limitations of remanent magnetization curves unmixing led by recognized experts R. Egli and E. Font, and a field trip to the Praia de Lavadores in Porto (see https://magiber2023.wixsite.com/xiii-magiber). The full book of abstracts (Sant´Ovaia et al., 2023) can be downloaded from the website of the Paleomagnetic Commission of the Geological Society of Spain (https://sociedadgeologica.org/magiber-xiii/).