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typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:J_Phillips_Geologist_1866_SLNSW.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/J_Phillips_Geologist_1866_SLNSW.jpg/220px-J_Phillips_Geologist_1866_SLNSW.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="318" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/J_Phillips_Geologist_1866_SLNSW.jpg/330px-J_Phillips_Geologist_1866_SLNSW.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/J_Phillips_Geologist_1866_SLNSW.jpg/440px-J_Phillips_Geologist_1866_SLNSW.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2397" data-file-height="3470" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Portrait of John Phillips, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1866</span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1800-12-25</span>)</span>25 December 1800<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Marden,_Wiltshire" title="Marden, Wiltshire">Marden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">24 April 1874<span style="display:none">(1874-04-24)</span> (aged 73)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/All_Souls_College" class="mw-redirect" title="All Souls College">All Souls College</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">publishing the first global geologic time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a> (1834)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">Geology</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" title="Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum </a><br /><a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Museum" title="Yorkshire Museum">Yorkshire Museum</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Phillips</b> <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a> (25 December 1800 – 24 April 1874) was an English <a href="/wiki/Geologist" title="Geologist">geologist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1841 he published the first global <a href="/wiki/Geologic_time_scale" title="Geologic time scale">geologic time scale</a> based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term <a href="/wiki/Mesozoic" title="Mesozoic">Mesozoic</a>, which he invented. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_work">Life and work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Phillips_(geologist)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Phillips_John_geologist.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Phillips_John_geologist.jpg/170px-Phillips_John_geologist.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Phillips_John_geologist.jpg/255px-Phillips_John_geologist.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Phillips_John_geologist.jpg/340px-Phillips_John_geologist.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1202" /></a><figcaption>John Phillips</figcaption></figure> <p>Phillips was born at <a href="/wiki/Marden,_Wiltshire" title="Marden, Wiltshire">Marden</a> in <a href="/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a>. His father belonged to an old <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Welsh</a> family, but settled in England as an officer of excise and married the sister of <a href="/wiki/William_Smith_(geologist)" title="William Smith (geologist)">William Smith</a>, a renowned English geologist. When both parents died when he was a child, Phillips's custody was assumed by Smith, and Phillips was brought into Smith's London home during early 1815. During the next few years, he attended various schools and helped his uncle with his geological research and writing; he also developed an interest in lithography (printing from prepared slabs of stone) and was among the earliest English practitioners of the process, experimenting with it between about 1816 and 1819.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After ending school, Phillips accompanied Smith on his wanderings in connection with his preparation of geological maps. </p><p>During the spring of 1824, Smith went to <a href="/wiki/York" title="York">York</a> to deliver a course of lectures on geology, and his nephew Phillips accompanied him. Phillips accepted engagements in the principal <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire" title="Yorkshire">Yorkshire</a> towns to arrange their museums and give courses of lectures on the collections contained therein. York became his residence, and he obtained during 1826 the situation of keeper of the <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Museum" title="Yorkshire Museum">Yorkshire Museum</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Philosophical_Society" title="Yorkshire Philosophical Society">Yorkshire Philosophical Society</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the same time as Henry Robinson was Librarian of the YPS. </p><p>From that centre, Phillips extended his operations to towns beyond the county, and by 1831 he included <a href="/wiki/University_College_London" title="University College London">University College London</a> within the sphere of his activity. During that year the <a href="/wiki/British_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="British Association for the Advancement of Science">British Association for the Advancement of Science</a> was initiated at York, and Phillips was one of the people who organized it. He became the first assistant secretary in 1832, a job which he had until 1859. In 1834, he accepted the professorship of geology at <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_London" title="King's College London">King's College London</a>, but retained his job at York.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1834, Phillips was elected a fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a>. During later years he received honorary degrees of <a href="/wiki/LL.D." class="mw-redirect" title="LL.D.">LL.D.</a> from <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin" title="Trinity College Dublin">Dublin</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, and <a href="/wiki/D.C.L." class="mw-redirect" title="D.C.L.">D.C.L.</a> from <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a>; while in 1845 he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Wollaston_Medal" title="Wollaston Medal">Wollaston Medal</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London" title="Geological Society of London">Geological Society of London</a>. In 1840, he resigned his charge of the Yorkshire Museum and was appointed to the staff of the geological survey of <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Great Britain</a> managed by <a href="/wiki/Henry_De_la_Beche" title="Henry De la Beche">Henry De la Beche</a>. Phillips spent some time studying the <a href="/wiki/Palaeozoic" class="mw-redirect" title="Palaeozoic">Palaeozoic</a> <a href="/wiki/Fossil" title="Fossil">fossils</a> of <a href="/wiki/Devon" title="Devon">Devon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a> and West <a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a>, of which he published a descriptive memoir (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0munahi10--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1utfZz-8-0&a=d&c=munahi10&cl=CL3.5.4&d=munahi010-ach">in 1841</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During that same year, he published the first global <a href="/wiki/Geologic_time_scale" title="Geologic time scale">geologic time scale</a>, which ordered rock strata according to the types of fossils found within. This helped standardize the usage of the terms <a href="/wiki/Paleozoic" title="Paleozoic">Paleozoic</a> period, which he extended to a longer period than it had had by previous usage, and <a href="/wiki/Mesozoic" title="Mesozoic">Mesozoic</a> period, the latter being his own invention.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also made a detailed survey of the region of the <a href="/wiki/Malvern_Hills_AONB" class="mw-redirect" title="Malvern Hills AONB">Malvern Hills</a>, of which he prepared the elaborate account that appears in vol. ii. of the Memoirs of the Survey (1848). In 1844, he became professor of geology for <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin" title="Trinity College Dublin">Trinity College Dublin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Phillips_(geologist).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/John_Phillips_%28geologist%29.jpg/170px-John_Phillips_%28geologist%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/John_Phillips_%28geologist%29.jpg/255px-John_Phillips_%28geologist%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/John_Phillips_%28geologist%29.jpg/340px-John_Phillips_%28geologist%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="825" data-file-height="1086" /></a><figcaption>Bust of John Phillips in the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University Museum">Oxford University Museum</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Nine years later, on the death of <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Edwin_Strickland" title="Hugh Edwin Strickland">Hugh Edwin Strickland</a>, who had acted as substitute for <a href="/wiki/William_Buckland" title="William Buckland">Dean Buckland</a> in the readership of geology in the University of Oxford, Phillips succeeded to the post of deputy. At the dean's death in 1856, Phillips became himself reader, a post which he had to the time of his death. During his residence in <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, he had a major part in the foundation and arrangement of the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Museum_of_Natural_History" title="Oxford University Museum of Natural History">University Museum</a> established in 1859 (see his <i>Notices of Rocks and Fossils in the University Museum</i>, 1863; and <i>The Oxford Museum</i>, by H. W. Acland and <a href="/wiki/John_Ruskin" title="John Ruskin">J. Ruskin</a>, 1859; reprinted with additions 1893). Phillips was also keeper of the <a href="/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" title="Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum</a> from 1854 until 1870. During 1859–1860 he was president of the Geological Society of London, and during 1865 president of the British Association.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Phillips also made astronomical observations of the <a href="/wiki/Planet" title="Planet">planet</a> <a href="/wiki/Mars" title="Mars">Mars</a> during its 1862 <a href="/wiki/Astronomical_opposition" class="mw-redirect" title="Astronomical opposition">opposition</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hutchins2012_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hutchins2012-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 23 April 1874, he dined at <a href="/wiki/All_Souls_College" class="mw-redirect" title="All Souls College">All Souls College</a>, but on leaving he slipped and fell down a flight of stone stairs. He died the next day,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was buried in <a href="/wiki/York_Cemetery,_York" title="York Cemetery, York">York Cemetery</a>, beside his sister <a href="/wiki/Anne_Phillips_(geologist)" title="Anne Phillips (geologist)">Anne</a> and his benefactor <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Gray" title="Thomas Gray">Thomas Gray</a>. His coffin was accompanied to <a href="/wiki/Oxford_railway_station" title="Oxford railway station">Oxford railway station</a> by 200 university academics.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Impact_crater" title="Impact crater">Craters</a> on Mars and the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> are named after him.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_writings">Selected writings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Phillips_(geologist)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Selected writings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Phillips.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/John_Phillips.JPG/170px-John_Phillips.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/John_Phillips.JPG/255px-John_Phillips.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/John_Phillips.JPG/340px-John_Phillips.JPG 2x" data-file-width="876" data-file-height="1131" /></a><figcaption>Portrait</figcaption></figure> <p>The first paper Phillips published was <i>On the Direction of the Diluvial Currents in Yorkshire</i> (1827). He contributed to the <i><a href="/wiki/Philosophical_Magazine" title="Philosophical Magazine">Philosophical Magazine</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_the_Geological_Society" title="Journal of the Geological Society">Journal of the Geological Society</a></i>, and the <i><a href="/wiki/Geological_Magazine" title="Geological Magazine">Geological Magazine</a></i>. He was also the author of separate works, including: </p> <ul><li><i>Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire</i> (in two parts, 1829 and 1836; 2nd edition of part 1 in 1835; 3rd edition, edited by R. Etheridge, in 1875) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0munahi10--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1utfZz-8-0&a=d&c=munahi10&cl=CL3.5.4&d=munahi010-abx">Part 1</a> & <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0munahi10--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1utfZz-8-0&a=d&c=munahi10&cl=CL3.5.4&d=munahi010-aby">Part 2</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/illustrationsofg00philrich">Full text of the 1829 edition at Archive.org</a></li> <li><i>A Treatise on Geology</i> (1837–1839); <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/b22018281_0001">Vol I</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/b22018281_0002">Vol II</a></li> <li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0munahi10--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1utfZz-8-0&a=d&c=munahi10&cl=CL3.5.4&d=munahi010-acd">Memoirs of William Smith</a></i> (1844);</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/riversmountainss00phil/page/n7"><i>The Rivers, Mountains and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire</i></a> (1853);</li> <li><i>Manual of Geology, Practical and Theoretical</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/manualofgeologyt01philrich/page/n5">Part I</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/manualgeology00seelgoog">Part II</a>(1855);</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/b28107366/page/n9"><i>Life on the Earth: its Origin and Succession</i></a> (1860);</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius" title="Mount Vesuvius">Vesuvius</a></i> (1869);</li> <li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.odl.ox.ac.uk/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0munahi10--00-0-0-0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-about---00001-001-1-1utfZz-8-0&a=d&c=munahi10&cl=CL3.5.4&d=munahi010-ace">Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames</a></i> (1871).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>To these should be added his <i>Monograph of British Belemnitidae</i> (1865), for the Palaeontographical Society, and his geological map of the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a> (1847).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His manuscript notebook describing his early experiments with lithography was published by the Printing Historical Society in 2016. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Blue_plaque">Blue plaque</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Phillips_(geologist)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Blue plaque"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Phillips_FRS_(33396073161).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/John_Phillips_FRS_%2833396073161%29.jpg/170px-John_Phillips_FRS_%2833396073161%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/John_Phillips_FRS_%2833396073161%29.jpg/255px-John_Phillips_FRS_%2833396073161%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/John_Phillips_FRS_%2833396073161%29.jpg/340px-John_Phillips_FRS_%2833396073161%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Blue_plaque" title="Blue plaque">Blue plaque</a> commemorating John Phillips in the <a href="/wiki/York_Museum_Gardens" title="York Museum Gardens">York Museum Gardens</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In February 2016, a <a href="/wiki/Blue_plaque" title="Blue plaque">blue plaque</a> commemorating John Phillips was erected on the side of St. Mary's Lodge (in <a href="/wiki/York_Museum_Gardens" title="York Museum Gardens">York Museum Gardens</a>), where Phillips lived in the mid-19th Century.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plaque, dedicated by the <a href="/wiki/Yorkshire_Philosophical_Society" title="Yorkshire Philosophical Society">Yorkshire Philosophical Society</a>, <a href="/wiki/York_Civic_Trust" title="York Civic Trust">York Civic Trust</a>, and <a href="/wiki/York_Museums_Trust" title="York Museums Trust">York Museums Trust</a> reads: "John Phillips FRS, 1800–1874, Geologist. Yorkshire Philosophical Society Officer and first Keeper of the Yorkshire Museum lived here between 1839 and 1853." </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Phillips_(geologist)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Phillips, John (1800-1874)"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Phillips,_John_(1800-1874)">"Phillips, John (1800-1874)" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. 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London: Printing Historical Society.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=John+Phillips%27s+lithographic+notebook%3A+reproduced+in+facsimile+from+the+original+at+the+Oxford+Museum+of+Natural+History&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Printing+Historical+Society&rft.date=2016&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Phillips+%28geologist%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFeinsten1981" class="citation book cs1">Feinsten, C. H., ed. (1981). <i>York 1831-1981:150 Years of Scientific Endeavour and Social Change</i>. 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"John Phillips's Astronomy 1852–67, a Pioneering Contribution to Comparative Planetology". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Antiquarian_Astronomer" class="mw-redirect" title="The Antiquarian Astronomer">The Antiquarian Astronomer</a></i>. <b>6</b>. <a href="/wiki/Society_for_the_History_of_Astronomy" title="Society for the History of Astronomy">Society for the History of Astronomy</a>: 44–58. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012AntAs...6...44H">2012AntAs...6...44H</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Antiquarian+Astronomer&rft.atitle=John+Phillips%27s+Astronomy+1852%E2%80%9367%2C+a+Pioneering+Contribution+to+Comparative+Planetology&rft.volume=6&rft.pages=44-58&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F2012AntAs...6...44H&rft.aulast=Hutchins&rft.aufirst=Roger&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Phillips+%28geologist%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPhillips,_John1834" class="citation book cs1">Phillips, John (1834). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_62cPAAAAYAAJ"><i>A Guide to Geology</i></a>. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_62cPAAAAYAAJ/page/n151">138</a>. <q>john Phillips geological map.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Guide+to+Geology&rft.place=London&rft.pages=138&rft.pub=Longman%2C+Rees%2C+Orme%2C+Brown%2C+Green%2C+and+Longman&rft.date=1834&rft.au=Phillips%2C+John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbub_gb_62cPAAAAYAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Phillips+%28geologist%29" class="Z3988"></span> – See the plates following page 138.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/news-media/latest-news/blue-plaque-unveiled-to-commend-york-geologist-john-phillips-frs/">"Blue Plaque Unveiled to Commend York Geologist John Phillips FRS"</a>. <a href="/wiki/York_Museums_Trust" title="York Museums Trust">York Museums Trust</a>. 25 February 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 November</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Blue+Plaque+Unveiled+to+Commend+York+Geologist+John+Phillips+FRS&rft.pub=York+Museums+Trust&rft.date=2016-02-25&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk%2Fnews-media%2Flatest-news%2Fblue-plaque-unveiled-to-commend-york-geologist-john-phillips-frs%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Phillips+%28geologist%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <dl><dt>Biibliography</dt></dl> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMorrell2001" class="citation journal cs1">Morrell, Jack (2001). "Genesis and geochronology: the case of John Phillips (1800–1874)". <i>Geological Society, London, Special Publications</i>. <b>190</b> (1). Geological Society of London: 85–90. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001GSLSP.190...85M">2001GSLSP.190...85M</a>. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1144%2Fgsl.sp.2001.190.01.07">10.1144/gsl.sp.2001.190.01.07</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:129792582">129792582</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Geological+Society%2C+London%2C+Special+Publications&rft.atitle=Genesis+and+geochronology%3A+the+case+of+John+Phillips+%281800%E2%80%931874%29&rft.volume=190&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=85-90&rft.date=2001&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A129792582%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1144%2Fgsl.sp.2001.190.01.07&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F2001GSLSP.190...85M&rft.aulast=Morrell&rft.aufirst=Jack&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Phillips+%28geologist%29" class="Z3988"></span> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.973.6253&rep=rep1&type=pdf">pdf</a>)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Attribution</dt></dl> <ul><li><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> </span>This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. 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