Phillips Mountains () is a range of mountains on the north side of Balchen Glacier and Block Bay in the Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. Discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928–30) and named by Byrd for Albanus Phillips, Sr., a manufacturer in Cambridge, Maryland, United States, and patron of the Byrd expeditions.
Geography and geology
The range spans about from west to east with elevations near 1000 m. Individual mountains are aligned northeast–southwest or northwest–southeast. Mountains and nunataks are composed of either Ford granodiorite (Devonian age), or Byrd Coast granite (Cretaceous age). Nunataks are mostly found north of the mountain range.
Peaks, Nunataks, and Rocks
Peaks
Mount Carbone
Mount June
Mount Paige
Nunataks
Abele Nunatak
Herrmann Nunatak
Hutcheson Nunataks
Reddick Nunatak
Rocks and features
Adams Rocks
Favela Rocks
Groux Rock
Lewis Rocks
Webster Bluff
Further reading
Donna Whitney, Christian Teyssier, Christine S. Siddoway, Gneiss Domes in Orogeny, P 271 Bruce Luyendyk, Stan Cisowski, Christine Smith, Steve Richard, David Kimbrough, Paleomagnetic study of the northern Ford Ranges, western Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Motion between West and East Antarctica, https://doi.org/10.1029/95TC02524 S. M. Richard, C. H. Smith, D. L. Kimbrough, Paul G Fitzgerald, B. P. Luyendyk, M. O. McWilliams, Cooling history of the northern Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, Tectonics, 13(4), 837–857. Bruce Luyendyk, Steve Richard, Christine Smith, David Kimbrough, 1991, Geological and geophysical investigations in the northern Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, Antarctic Journal of the United States, Volume 26, P 37 - 40.