John Phillips (geologist)
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John Phillips FRS (25 December 1800 – 24 April 1874) was an English geologist.[1] 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.