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William Phillips

English geologist
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  • Grand Canyon rock layering
    geochronology
    / Completion of the Phanerozoic time scale

    Conybeare and William Phillips, in their synthesis of the geology of England and Wales in 1822. Conybeare and Phillips coined the term Carboniferous (or coal-bearing) to apply to the succession of rocks from north-central England that contained the Coal Measures. The unit also included several underlying rock…

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    Conybeare and William Phillips, in their synthesis of the geology of England and Wales in 1822. Conybeare and Phillips coined the term Carboniferous (or coal-bearing) to apply to the succession of rocks from north-central England that contained the Coal Measures. The unit also included several underlying rock…

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