We present a synchrotron-based x-ray scattering technique which allows disentangling magnetic propertiesof heterogeneous systems with nanopatterned surfaces. This technique combines the nanometer-range spatialresolution of surface morphology features provided by grazing incidence small angle x-ray scattering and thehigh sensitivity of nuclear resonant scattering to magnetic order. A single experiment thus allows attributingmagnetic properties to structural features of the sample; chemical and structural properties may be correlatedanalogously. We demonstrate how this technique shows the correlation between structural growth and evolutionof magnetic properties for the case of a remarkable magnetization reversal in a structurally and magneticallynanopatterned sample system
