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The Life of Frank Coles Phillips (1902-1982) and the Structural Geology of the Moine Petrofabric Controversy (Memoir (Geological Society of London), No. 23.)
 
 
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Richard J. Howarth (Author), Bernard E. Leake (Author)

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1862391025 978-1862391024 June 1, 2002
Frank Coles Phillips was a petrographer, mineralogist and structural petrologist working in the middle of the 20th century. He was very influential, both in the UK and abroad and was responsible for encouraging the development of structural geology as a discipline in Australia and for the adoption of the stereogram as a fundamental interpretational tool in a structural geology in the UK. He was a superb teacher, perhaps best known amongst mineralogists and geologists of today for his classic textbooks, An Introduction to Crystallography and The Use of Stereographic Projection in Structural Geology. Phillips was the first to apply the methods of structural petrology (the study of the microscopic fabric of deformed rock) in a attempt to unravel the complex structural history of the Moine rocks of northwestern Scotland. His findings were at odds with those of his contemporaries and resulted in the Moine petrofabrics becoming embroiled on a long-running controversy, only completely resolved since the mid-1980s.

This geological biography of an importance 20th century mineralogist and petrologist takes a critical look at Phillips' research in the context of contemporaneous developments in structural and Moine geology. It reviews his work in relation to both past problems and present solutions. It will be of interest to all geologists, especially structural and microstructural geologists, historians of sciences and the general reader with an interest in science.

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The petrographer,1 mineralogist and structural petrologist,2 Frank Coles Phillips (Fig. 1.1) was born on 19 March 1902, at 19 Lipson Avenue, Plymouth, Devon, the youngest of the three children of Nicholas Phillips, an Inland Revenue officer, and his wife Kate Phillips (neé Salmon). Read the first page
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structural petrologists, quartz girdles, petrofabric diagrams, equatorial stereographic projection, structural petrology, petrofabric studies, quartz fabric, petrofabric analysis, sheath folds, crystal plastic deformation, thrust zone, tectonic transport, foliation plane, kinematic interpretation, basal cleavage, fabric study, minor folds, structural geologists, fold axes, deformed rocks, universal stage, associated rocks, structural geology, thrust movements, minor structures
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Moine Thrust, Geological Survey, Imperial College, Geological Society, Start Point, Ernst Cloos, Funzie Conglomerate, Scottish Highlands, Shetland Islands, Geological Magazine, New South Wales, Green Bed, Northwest Highlands of Scotland, Bristol University, World War, Hans Cloos, The Use of Stereographic Projection, Cambridge University Press, James Phemister, Coles Phillips, New York, Stack of Glencoul, United States, Old Red Sandstone, Moine Nappe
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