ISSN: 2007-9656 January 2013 - Volume 3 - Number 3 LL13-0301Rv Published on behalf of the Latin American Association of Paleomagnetism and Geomagnetism by the Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The Birth of Paleomagnetism in Latin America: Argentina Juan F. A. Vilas 20 pages, 20 figures Latinmag Letters can be viewed and copied free of charge at: http://www.geofisica.unam.mx/LatinmagLetters/ REVIEW PAPER Papers contents can be reproduced meanwhile the source is cited Latinmag Letters Volume 3, number 3 (2013), LL13-0301Rv, 1-20 REVIEW PAPER Published on behalf of Latin American Association of Paleomagnetism and Geomagnetism by the Instituto de Geofisica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The Birth of Paleomagnetism in Latin America: Argentina Juan F. A. Vilas Laboratorio de Paleomagnetismo Daniel A. Valencio, Instituto de Geociencias Básicas, Aplicadas y Ambientales de Buenos Aires (IGEBA), Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires * Corresponding author, Email:
[email protected] Recibido: Octubre 2012; Revisado: Noviembre 2012; Aceptado: Diciembre 2012; Publicado: Enero 2013 Abstract. Paleomagnetic activities in Latin America started with the first field trip of the young Ken Creer in 1957. In the early sixties, and by initiative of the by then Director of the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Feliz Gonzalez Bonorino; the engineer Daniel A. Valencio is hired to start the teaching of Geophysics to the undergraduate students of Geology and to begin with the Paleomagnetic research in Argentina. The Paleomagnetic Laboratory of Buenos Aires was created in 1964 and rapidly became an internationally recognized center, promoter of research in the emergent theory of Plate Tectonics and a spreading center of Paleomagnetism in Latin America.