“…In the past few decades, many studies have demonstrated that anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS, also termed magnetic fabric), a comparatively rapid tool, has delivered crucial information on basin evolution (e.g., Mattei et al, 1997;Cifelli et al, 2005;Oliva-Urcia et al, 2010, 2011, 2013Yu et al, 2014;Tang et al, 2015;Li et al, 2020aLi et al, , 2020cLi et al, , 2021Jiang et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022a), emplacement of igneous bodies (e.g., Hrouda, 1982;Bascou et al, 2005;Antolín-Tomás et al, 2009;Cañón-Tapia and Mendoza-Borunda, 2014;Yan et al, 2019), fold/fault deformation (e.g., Aubourg et al, 1999;Saint-Bezar et al, 2002;Evans et al, 2003;Luo et al, 2009;García-Lasanta et al, 2015), and paleocurrent directions (e.g., Tarling and Hrouda, 1993;Pueyo Anchuela et al, 2013;Ejembi et al, 2020;Bilardello, 2021). A fundamental step prior to interpreting AMS data is to ascertain what minerals give rise to the magnetic fabric.…”