John Phillips
Geologist, Author
1800 – 1874
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Who was John Phillips?
John Phillips FRS was an English geologist. In 1841 he published the first global geologic time scale based on correlating strata world wide based on fossils, helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented.
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