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HANS HENRIK See also:REUSCH (1852– ) , See also:Norwegian geologist, was See also:born at See also:Bergen on the 5th of See also:September 1852, He was educated at See also:Christiania, See also:Leipzig and See also:Heidelberg, and graduated Ph.D. at Christiania in 1883 . He joined the See also:Geological Survey of See also:Norway in 1875, and became Director in 1888 . He is distinguished for his researches on the crystalline See also:schists and the Palaeozoic rocks of Norway . He discovered See also:Silurian fossils in the highly altered rocks of the Bergen region; and in 1891 he called See also:attention to a palaeozoic See also:conglomerate 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 See also:ancient See also:boulder-See also:bed . See also:Reusch has likewise thrown See also:light on the later geological periods, on the See also:Pleistocene glacial phenomena and on the sculpturing of the scenery of Norway . Among his See also:separate publications are Silur fossiler og pressede Konglomerater (1882); Det nordlige Norges Geologi (1891) . |
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