We studied 79 turbidite mud samples from 3 piston cores from the continental rise off Nova Scotia, Canada. Natural remanence and susceptibility are mainly due to magnetite. The stable remanence inclination, Iobs, is on average 12 degrees shallower than that predicted from the geocentric axial dipole model. The average percent magnetic anisotropy is 17% for anhysteretic remanent magnetization (ARM) and 10% for susceptibility (χ). Both magnetic anisotropies are foliated in the bedding plane with the hard (minimum) axis perpendicular to bedding (except for 15% of the specimens which are likely disturbed and are excluded from further discussion). As expected theoretically for a suite of samples with inclination shallowing (Hodych and Bijaksana, 1993), a significant correlation was found between tan Iobs and ARMmin/ARMmax (the ratio of intensities of ARM given identically perpendicular and parallel to bedding). A significant correlation was also found using χmin/χmax (the ratio of susceptibilities perpendicular and parallel to bedding) in place of ARMmin/ARMmax. In individual cores, the correlation using ARM anisotropy is generally higher than using susceptibility anisotropy. However, when the results from the three cores are combined, either correlation extrapolated to zero anisotropy succeeds in predicting the observed inclination shallowing. Because susceptibility anisotropy measurement is so fast, we recommend that it become routine in paleomagnetic studies of magnetite-bearing sediments to warn of possible inclination shallowing.