Magentic fabrics: methods and applications: an introduction, F Martin-Hernandez, C Luneburg, C Aubourg and M Jackson • Determination of the orientation of magnetic minerals from the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, F Hrouda and J Jezek • A comparison of anisotropy of magnetic remanence methods: a user guide for application to palaeomagnetism and magnetic fabric studies, D K Potter • Distribution anisotropy: the influence of magnetic interactions on the anisotropy of magnetic remanence, A R Muxworthy and W Williams • Problems in interpreting AMS parameters in diamagnetic rocks, F Hrouda • Metamorphic control of magnetic susceptibility and magnetic fabrics: a 3-D projection, N Nakamura and G J Borradaile • Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of rocks measured in variable weak magnetic fields using the KLY-4S Kappabridge, J Pokorny, P Suza and F Hrouda • The anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) in low-grade, cleaved pelitic rocks: influence of cleavage/bedding angle and type and relative orientation of magnetic carriers, T N Debacker, P Robion and M Sintubin • Magnetic and mineral fabric development in the Ordovician Martinsburg Formation in the Central Appalachian fold and thrust belt, Pennsylvania, A M Hirt, W Lowrie, C Luneburg, H Lebit and T Engelder • An integrated AMS, structural, palaeo-and rock-magnetic study of the Eocene marine marls from the Jaca-Pamplona basin (Pyrenees, N Spain): new insights into the timing of magnetic fabric acquisition in weakly deformed mudrocks, J C Larrasoana, E L Pueyo and J M Pares • Magnetic properties and magnetic fabrics of Pleistocene loess/palaeosol deposits along west-central Siberian transect and their palaeoclimatic implications, G G Matasova and A Y Kazansky • The puzzle of axis-normal magnetic lineations in folded low-grade sediments (Bude Formation, SW England), M W Anderson and A Morris • How deformed are weakly deformed mudrocks: insights from magnetic anisotropy, J M Pares • Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of lava flows and dykes: a historical account, E Canon-Tapia • Theoretical aspects of particle movement in flowing magma: implications for the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of dykes, E Canon-Tapia and M J Chavez-Alvarez • Magmatic flow paths and palaeomagnetism of the Miocene Stoddard Mountain laccolith, Iron Axis region, southwestern Utah, USA. M S Petronis, D B Hacker, D K Holm, J W Geissman and S S Harlan • Magma flow inferred from preferred orientations of plagioclase of the Rio Ceara-Mirim dyke swarm (NE Brazil) and its AMS significance, C A Archanjo and O Launeau • Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS): magnetic petrofabrics of deformed rocks, G J Borradaile and M Jackson • Phyllosilicate preferred orientation as a control of magnetic fabric: evidence from neutron texture goniometry and low and high-field magnetic anisotropy (SE Rhenohercynian Zone of Bohemian Massif), M Chadima, A Hansen, A M Hirt, F Hrouda and H Siemes • Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility in the Montes de Toledo area (Hercynian Iberian Belt, Spain) and its petro-structural significance, A Gil-Imaz and L Barbero • Statistical significance of magnetic fabric data in studies of paramagnetic granites, E L Pueyo, M T Roman-Berdiel, J L Bouchez, A M Casas and J C Larrosoana • Magnetic fabric constraints on oroclinal bending of the Texas and Coffs Harbour blocks: New England Orogen, eastern Australia, C Aubourg, C Klootwijk and R J Korsch • Application of magnetic fabrics to the emplacement and tectonic history of Devonian granitoids in central Argentina, M G Lopez De Luchi, A E Rapalini, S Siegesmund and A Steenken • Relationships between magnetic and structural fabrics revealed by Variscan basement rocks subjected to heterogeneous deformation - a case study from the Klodzko Metamorphic Complex, Central Sudetes, Poland. M Kadzialko-Hofmokl, S Mazur, T Werner and J Kruczyk • Oblique magnetic fabric in siderite-bearing pelitic rocks of the Upper Carboniferous Culm Basin, SW-England: an indicator for palaeo-fluid migration? H De Wall and L N Warr • Development of magnetic fabrics during hydrothermal alteration in the Soultz-sous-Forets granite from the EPS-1 borehole, Upper Rhine Graben, J Just, A Kontny, H De Wall, A M Hirt and F Martin-hernandez • Sub-fabric identification by standardization of AMS: an example of inferred neotectonic structures from Cyprus, T D Hamilton, G J Borradaile and F Lagroix •