HANS HENRIK

REUSCH (1852– )  , Norwegian geologist, was born at Bergen on the 5th of September 1852, He was educated at Christiania, Leipzig and Heidelberg, and graduated Ph.D. at Christiania in 1883 . He joined the 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 fossils in the highly altered rocks of the Bergen region; and in 1891 he called attention to a palaeozoic 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 ancient boulder-bed . Reusch has likewise thrown light on the later geological periods, on the Pleistocene glacial phenomena and on the sculpturing of the scenery of Norway . Among his separate publications are Silur fossiler og pressede Konglomerater (1882); Det nordlige Norges Geologi (1891) .