Selected Writings
The first paper Phillips published was On the Direction of the Diluvial Currents in Yorkshire (1827). He contributed to the Philosophical Magazine, the Journal of the Geological Society, and the Geological Magazine. He was also the author of separate works, including:
- Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire (in two parts, 1829 and 1836; 2nd ed. of pt. 1 in 1835; 3rd ed., edited by R. Etheridge, in 1875) Part 1 & Part 2;
- A Treatise on Geology (1837–1839);
- Memoirs of William Smith (1844);
- The Rivers, Mountains and Sea-Coast of Yorkshire (1853);
- Manual of Geology, Practical and Theoretical (1855);
- Life on the Earth: its Origin and Succession (1860);
- Vesuvius (1869);
- Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames (1871).
To these should be added his Monograph of British Belemnitidae (1865), for the Palaeontographical Society, and his geological map of the British Isles (1847).
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