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REUSCH, HANS HENRIK (1852– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 209 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NORWEGIAN

Norwegian geologist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

BERGEN

Bergen on the 5th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1852, He was educated at See also:

CHRISTIANIA (officially KRISTIANIA)

Christiania, See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig and See also:

HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, and graduated Ph.D. at Christiania in 1883. He joined the See also:

GEOLOGICAL

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 (Gr. vxq'ecv, to split)

schists and the Palaeozoic rocks of Norway. He discovered See also:

SILURIAN

Silurian fossils in the highly altered rocks of the Bergen region; and in 1891 he called See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to a palaeozoic See also:

CONGLOMERATE (from the Lat. conglomerare, to form into a ball, glomus, glomeris; so also the general term " conglomeration " for a miscellaneous collection of things, gathered together in a mass)

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. Reusch has likewise thrown See also:

LIGHT

light on the later geological periods, on the See also:

PLEISTOCENE

Pleistocene glacial phenomena and on the sculpturing of the scenery of Norway. Among his See also:

SEPARATE

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

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