PALEOCLAK
Research interests
-Themes: Paleosecular variation, Paleointensity, Earth´s magnetic field, Paleoenvironment.
-Tools: Paleomagnetism, Archeomagnetism, Environmental magnetism, Paleointensity.
-Materials: Archeological material, continental and lacustrine sediments.
Participations in Research Projects
1. Title: Archaeomagnetic Applications for the Rescue of Cultural Heritage (AARCH): HPRN-CT-200200219. Duration: 01/11/2002-31/08/2006. Coordinator: Catherine Batt (University of Bradford). Project
funded by the European Union.
2. Title: Estudio de la variación secular del campo magnético terrestre en Iberia durante los últimos
10.000 años a partir de datos paleomagnéticos (CGL20005 00211-BTE). Duration: 01/09/200501/09/2008. Coordinator: M.L. Osete (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Project funded by
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain).
3. Title: Estudio de la intensidad del campo magnético tesrrestre durante el pasado arqueológico Grupo Paleomagnetismo 910396 (CCG07-UCM/ESP-3078). Duration: 01/01/2008-21/12/2008.
Coordinator: G. McIntosh (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Project funded by Comunidad
Autónoma de Madrid -Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
4. Title: Estudio de la Variación Secular durante el pasado arqueológico- Grupo Paleomagnetismo
910396 (CCG07-UCM/ESP-3078). Duration: 01/01/2009-31/12/2009. Coordinator: G. McIntosh
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Project funded by Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
5. Title: Estudio de la Variación Secular durante el pasado arqueológico- Grupo Paleomagnetismo
910396 (CCG07-UCM/ESP-3078). Duration: 01/01/2011-31/12/2011. Coordinator: G. McIntosh
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Project funded by Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
6. Title: Reconstrucción y modelización 3D y 4D de sistemas sedimentarios REMOSS 3D-4D
(CGL2007-66431-C02/BTE). Duration: 01/10/2007-30/06/2012. Coordinator: M. López-Blanco
(Universitat de Barcelona). Project funded by Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Spain).
7. Title: Estudio y modelado de la variación secular del campo geomagnético en Europa y norte de
África durante los últimos 10000 años. Desarrollo de aplicaciones (CGL2008-02203/BTE). Duration:
01/10/2008-01/10/2011. Coordinator: M.L. Osete (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Project
funded by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain).
8. Title: Time clustering, frequency, localization and extension of lava flows at Teide and Vesuvius: a
comparative and multidisciplinary investigation of emplacement features and mapping of the
associated risk. Duration: 01/01/2011-28/02/2012. Coordinator: D. Giordano (CSIC). Project funded by
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain).
9. Title: Evolución de la NAO durante los últimos 15000 años en la Península Ibérica y en Azores a
partir del estudio de registros lacustres y datos climáticos instrumentales (CGL2010-15767/BTE).
Duration: 01/01/2010-31/12/2013. Coordinator: S. Giralt (CSIC). Project funded by Ministerio de
Ciencia e Innovación (Spain).
10. Title: Paleomagnetic applications for dating and identifying Holocene Climate variability in
southwestern Europe and Azores Islands as recorded by lake sediments (FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF).
Duration: 01/03/2013-31/12/2013. Coordinator: M. Gómez-Paccard/A: Chauvin. Project funded by the
European Union.
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I have also been involved in 11 research contracts funded by different private or public companies or
institutions (General Electric Plastics, Fábrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre, Actium Patrimoni
Cultural, Arqueociencia Serveis Culturals, Atics SL, Museu d´Historia de la Ciutat de Barcelona,
Universitat de Barcelona, Hades, Janus S.L., Instituto Geológico y Minero de España).
Publications in peer-reviewed international journals
1. Gómez-Paccard, M., McIntosh,G., Villasante, V., Osete, M.L., Rodríguez-Fernández, J., GómezSal, J.C. (2004). Low-temperature and high magnetic field measurements of atmospheric particulate
matter,
Journal
of
Magnetism
and
Magnetic
Materials,
272-276,
2420-2421,
doi:10.1016/j.jmmm.2003.12.845.
2. Gómez-Paccard, M., Catanzariti, G., Ruiz-Martínez, V.C., McIntosh, G., Nuñez, J.I., Osete, M.L.,
Chauvin, A., Lanos, P., Tarling, D.H., Bernal-Casasola, D. Thiriot, J., “archaeological working group”
(2006). A catalogue of Spanish archaeomagnetic data. Geophysical Journal International, 166, 11251143, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.030020.x.
3. Gómez-Paccard, M., Chauvin, A., Lanos, P., Thiriot, J., Jiménez-Castillo, P. (2006).
Archeomagnetic study of seven contemporaneous kilns from Murcia (Spain), Physics of the Earth and
Planetary Interiors, 157, 16-32, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2006.03.001.
4. Gómez-Paccard, M., Chauvin,A., Lanos, P., McIntosh, G., Osete,M.L., Catanzariti,G., RuizMartínez, V.C., Núñez, J. (2006). First archaeomagnetic secular variation curve for the Iberian
Peninsula. Comparison with other data from Western Europe and with global geomagnetic field
models, Geochemistry, Geophysics Geosystems, 7(12), Q12001, doi:10.1029/2006GC001476.
5. McIntosh, G., Gómez-Paccard, M., Osete, M.L. (2007). The magnetic properties of particles
deposited on Platanus x hispanica leaves in Madrid, Spain, and their temporal and spatial variations,
Science of the Total Environment, 382, 135-146, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.03.020.
6. Gómez-Paccard, M., Chauvin, A., Lanos, P., Thiriot, J. (2008). New archeointensity data from Spain
and the geomagnetic dipole moment in western Europe over the past 2000 years, Journal of
Geophysical Research, 113, B09103, doi:10.1029/2008JB005582.
7. Catanzariti, G., McIntosh, G., Gómez-Paccard, M., Ruiz-Martínez, V.C., Osete, M.L., Chauvin, A.,
"the AARCH Scientific Team" (2008). Quality control of archaeomagnetic determination using a
modern kiln with a complex NRM, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 33, 427-437,
doi:10.1016/j.pce.2008.02.028.
8. De Marco, E., Spatharas, V., Gómez-Paccard, M., Chauvin, A., Kondopoulou, D. (2008). New
archaeointensity results from archaeological sites and variation of the geomagnetic field intensity for
the last 7 millennia in Greece, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 33, 578-595,
doi:10.1016/j.pce.2008.02.025.
9. Gómez-Paccard, M., Beamud, E. (2008). Recent achievements in archaeomagnetic dating in the
Iberian Peninsula: Application to four Spanish structures, Journal of Archaeological Science, 35, 13891398, doi:10.1016/j.jas.2007.10.005.
10. Costa, E., Garcés, M., López-Blanco, M., Beamud, E., Gómez-Paccard, M., Larrasoaña, J.C.
(2010). Closing and continentalization of the South Pyrenean foreland basin (NE Spain):
Magneochronological
constraints,
Basin
Research,
22,
904-917,
doi:10.1111/j.13652117.2009.00452.x.
11. Larrasoaña, J.C., Gómez-Paccard, M., Giralt, S., Roberts, A.P. (2011). Rapid locking of tectonic
magnetic
fabrics
in
weakly
deformed
mudrocks,
Tectonophysics,
507,
16-25,
doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.05.003.
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12. Catanzariti, G., Gómez-Paccard, M., McIntosh, G., Pavón-Carrasco, F.J., Chauvin, A., Osete, M.L.
(2012). New archaeomagnetic data recovered from the study of Roman and Visigothic remains from
central Spain (3rd-7th centuries), Geophysical Journal International, 188, 979-993, doi:10.1111/j.1365246X.2011.05315.x.
13. Gómez-Paccard, M., McIntosh, G., Chauvin, A., Beamud, E., Pavón-Carrasco, F.J., Thiriot. J.
(2012). Archaeomagnetic and rock magnetic study of six kilns from North Africa (Tunisia and Morocco),
Geophysical Journal International, 189, 169-186, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05335.x.
14. Gómez-Paccard, M., Larrasoaña, J.C., Giralt, S., Roberts, A.P. (2012). Preliminary paleomagnetic
results of Mid- to Late Holocene sediments from Lake Issyk-Kul (Kyrgyzstan): implications for
paleosecular variation in central Asia, Geochemistry, Geophysics Geosystems, 13(1), Q03019,
doi:10.1029/2011GC004015.
15. Tema, E., Gómez-Paccard, M., Kondopoulou, D., Almar, Y. (2012). Intensity of the Earth´s
magnetic field in Greece during the last five millennia: New data from Greek pottery, Physics of the
Earth and Planetary Interiors, 202-203, 14-26, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2012.01.012.
16. Gómez-Paccard, M., López-Blanco, M., Costa, E., Garcés, M., Beamud, E., Larrasoaña, J.C.
(2012). Tectonic and climatic controls on the sequential arrangement of an alluvial fan/fan-delta
complex (Montserrat, Eocene, Ebro Basin, NE Spain), Basin Research, 24, 437-455,
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00532.x.
17. Gómez-Paccard, M., Chauvin, A., lanos, P., Dufresne, P., Kovacheva, M.m Hill, M.J., Beamud, E.,
Bouvier, A., Guibert, A. Archeological Working Team (2012). Improving our knowledge of rapid
geomagnetic field intensity changes observed in Europe between 200 and 1400 AD. Earth and
Planetary Science Letters. 355-356, 131-143. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2011.00532.x.
18. Gómez-Paccard, M., Beamud, E., McIntosh, G.., and Larrasoaña, J.C. (2013). New
archaeomagnetic data recovered from the study of three Roman kilns from north-east Spain: A
contribution to the Iberian Palaeosecular variation curve, Archaeometry, 55, 159-177, doi:10.1016/jepsl.2012.08.037.
19. Gómez-Paccard, M., Larrasoaña, J.C., Sancho, C., Muñoz, A., McDonald, E., Rhodes, E.J.,
Osácar, M.C., Costa, E., Beamud, E. (2013). Environmental response of a fragile semi-arid landscape
(Bardenas Reales Natural Park, NE Spain) to Early Holocene climate variability: a palaeo- and
environmental-magnetic approach, Catena, 103 (30-43), doi:10.1016/j.catena.2011.05.013.
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