Contents Introduction: sediments and diagenesis • Preliminary investigations into the acquisition of remanence in archaeological sediments • Studies of post-depositional remanent magnetization and their relevance to the palaemagnetic record • Viscous remanent magnetization of high thermal stability in limestone • The significance of magnetotactic bacteria for the palaeo- and rock magnetic record of Quaternary sediments and soils • The locking-in of remanence in late Pleistocene sediments of Lake Lisan (palaeo Dead Sea) • Diagenesis and remanence acquisition in the early Pliocene Trubi Marls at Punta di Maiata (southern Sicily): palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic observations • Magnetic properties of sediments deposited in suboxic-anoxic environments: relationships with biological and geochemical proxies • The isolation of diagenetic groups in marine sediments using fuzzy c-means cluster analyses • Diagenesis of magnetic mineral assemblages in multiply redeposited siliciclastic marine sediments, Wanganui basin, New Zealand • Remanence acquisition and magnetostratigraphy of the Leman Sandstone Formation: Jupiter Fields, southern North Sea • Characterizing pore fabrics in sediments by anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility analyses • Magnetic anisotropy indications of deformations associated with diagenesis • Acquisition of anhysteretic remanence and tensor subtraction from AMS isolates true palaeocurrent grain alignments • Diagenesis and remanence acquisition in the cretaceous carbonates of Monte Raggeto, southern Italy • Diagenesis in platform carbonates: a palaeomagnetic study of a late Triassic-early Jurassic section, Tata (Hungary) • The influence of dolomitization on the magnetic properties of early palaeozoic carbonate rocks in estonia • Alteration of magnetic properties of Palaeozoic platform carbonates during burial diagenesis (Lower Ordovician, Texas, USA) • Glossary