John Phillips
English geologist
Died when: 73 years 120 days (879 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
John Phillips FRS (25 December 1800 – 24 April 1874) was an English geologist.In 1841 he published the first global geologic time scale based on the correlation of fossils in rock strata, thereby helping to standardize terminology including the term Mesozoic, which he invented.
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