In this work, he developed innovative research methods, including magnetic measurements of sedimentary rocks, that were used to reconstruct tectonic of blocks rotations between the Galillee faults.

These methods were a global breakthrough in the interrelationship between geological fieldwork and geophysics, and are an important landmark in paleomagnetic research in general, even by today's standards.

[4] For that time, "he championed the use of Israeli and Jordanian archeological materials, most notably metallurgical slag deposits, for the study of paleointensity variations in the southern Levant".

It was Ron's initial paleomagnetic findings from Excavation 1 at this cave that gave the first inkling of the great antiquity of the lowermost layers in that site.

He organized a tour of advanced research students from the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University, led by Prof. Amos Nur, to archaeological sites in Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan, where evidence of earthquakes that damaged them were found,[38] and published with him several articles and abstracts of lectures for conferences in the field.

[39][40][41] Ron, together with Prof. Amos Nur, produced the award-winning documentary video: "The Walls Came Tumbling Down: "Earthquakes in the Holy Land".

[42] In addition, he brought together with Prof. Nur to write a doctoral thesis that was reconstructed for the first time in Israel in a comprehensive way, a historical earthquake (1927).

[46] Some of Ron's last research was dedicated to a large-scale archaeomagnetic campaign aiming at reconstructing variations in the intensity of the geomagnetic field over the past several millennia from pottery and slag materials.