Philip W. Guild, a geologist and authority on metallogenic maps and the genesis of ore deposits, received his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1947. He was a career employee of the United States Geological Survey, beginning as a junior geologist in 1939. He did field investigations from 1939-1954 in the Western United States, Cuba, Guatemala, and Brazil. Guild was liaison to the Office of Minerals Mobilization, Department of the Interior (1955-1960), chief of the USGS Branch of Base and Ferrous Metals (1960-1965), and in charge of metallogenic mapping in 1966. He was a member of the Scientific Committee of UNESCO's International Geological Correlation Programme from 1974-1980.
From the description of Papers, 1939-1982. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 28917294
