REUSCH, HANS HENRIK (1852 )

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REUSCH, HANS HENRIK (1852 ) ,

Norwegian

NORWEGIAN

geologist, was born at Bergen on the 5th of September 1852, He was educated at Christiania,

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

and

Heidelberg

HEIDELBERG

, and graduated Ph.D. at Christiania in 1883. He joined the

Geological

GEOLOGICAL

Survey of Norway in 1875, and became Director in 1888. He is distinguished for his researches on the crystalline schists and the Palaeozoic rocks of Norway. He discovered

Silurian

SILURIAN

fossils in the highly altered rocks of the Bergen region; and in 1891 he called attention to a palaeozoic

conglomerate

CONGLOMERATE (from the Lat. conglomerare, to form into a ball, glomus, glomeris; so also the general
term
- TERM
" conglomeration " for a miscellaneous collection of things, gathered together in a
mass
- MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
- MASS, IN
)

of glacial origin in the Varanger Fiord, a view confirmed by Mr A. Strahan in 1896, who found glacial striae on the rocks beneath the ancient boulder-bed.

Reusch

has likewise thrown light on the later

geological

GEOLOGICAL

periods, on the Pleistocene glacial phenomena and on the sculpturing of the scenery of Norway. Among his

separate

SEPARATE

publications are Silur fossiler og pressede Konglomerater (1882); Det nordlige Norges Geologi (1891).

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