Phillips, F.M.; G.I. Smith; H.W. Bentley; D. Elmore; and H.E. Gove (1983). 36C1 dating of saline sediments: Preliminary results from Searles Lake, California: Science 222 925-927.
Phillips, F.M.; L.A. Peeters; M.K. Tansey; and S.N. Davis (1986) Paleoclimatic inferences from an isotopic investigation of ground water in the central San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Quat. Res. 26 179-193.
Phillips, F.M.; M.K. Tansey; L.A. Peeters; S. Cheng; and A. Long (1989) An isotopic investigation of ground water in the central San Juan Basin, New Mexico: 14C dating as a basis for numerical flow modeling: Water Resour. Res. 25 2259-2273.
Huang Qi and Phillips, F.M. (1990) Preliminary study on chlorine-36 dating of halite in salt lakes from the Qaidam Basin: Chinese Sci. Bull. 35 32-36.
Jannik, N.O.; Phillips, F.M.; Smith, G.I.; and Elmore, D.(1991) A36C1 chronology of lacustrine sedimentation in the Pleistocene Owens River Systems, Eastern California: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 103 1146-1159.
Huang, Q.; Ku, T.-L.; and Phillips, F.M. (1993) Evolutionary characteristics of lakes and paleoclimate undulation in the Qaidam Basin, China: Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 11 34-45.
Phillips, F.M. (1994) Environmental tracers for water movement in desert soils of the American Southwest: Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 58 15-24.
Liu, B.; Phillips, F.M.; Fabryka-Martin, J.T.; Fowler, M.M.; and Stone, W.D. (1994) Cosmogenic 36Cl accumulation in unstable landforms, 1. Effects of the thermal neutron distribution: Water Resour. Res. 30 3115-3125.
Zreda, M.G.; Phillips, F.M.; and Elmore, D. (1994) Cosmogenic 36Cl accumulation in unstable landforms, 2. Simulations and measurements on eroding moraines: Water Resour. Res. 30 3127-3136.
Liu, B.; Phillips, F.M.; Elmore, D.; and Sharma, P. (1994) Depth dependence of soil carbonate accumulation based on cosmogenic 36Cl dating: Geology 22 1071-1074.
Phillips, F.M.; Campbell, A.R.; Smith, G.I.; and Bischoff, J.L. (1994) Interstadial climatic cycles: A link between western North America and Greenland?: Geology 22 1115-1118.
Zreda, M.G.; and Phillips, F.M. (1995) Insights into alpine moraine development from cosmogenic 36Cl buildup dating: Geomorphology 14 149-156.
Liu, B.; Phillips, F.M.; Pohl, M.M.; and Sharma, P. (1996) An alluvial surface chronology based on cosmogenic 36Cl dating, Ajo Mountains, southern Arizona: Quat. Res. 45 30-37.
Liu, B.; Phillips, F.M.; Campbell, A.R. (1996) Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of pedogenic carbonates, Ajo Mountains, southern Arizona: Implications for paleoenvironmental change: Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol. 124 233-246.
Duk-Rodkin, A.; Barendregt, R.W.; Tarnocai, C.; and Phillips, F.M. (1996) Late Tertiary to late Quaternary record in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada: stratigraphy, paleosols, paleomagnetism, and chlorine-36: Can. J. Earth. Sci. 33 875-895.
Benson, L.V.; Burdett, J.W.; Kashgarian, M.; Lund, S.P.; Phillips, F.M.; and Rye, R.O. (1996) Climatic and hydrologic oscillations in the Owens Lake Basin and adjacent Sierra Nevada, California: Science 274746-749.
Phillips, F.M.; Zreda, M.G.; Benson, L.V.; Plummer, M.A.; Elmore, D.; and Sharma, P. (1996) Chronology for fluctuations in late Pleistocene Sierra Nevada glaciers and lakes: Science 274 749-751.
Jackson, L.E., Jr.; Phillips, F.M.; Shimamura, K.; and Little, E.C. (1997) Cosmogenic 36Cl dating of the Foothills erratics train, Alberta, Canada: Geology 25 195-198.
Phillips, F.M.; Zreda, M.G.; Gosse, J.C.; Klein, J.; Evenson, E.B.; Hall, R.D.; Chadwick, O.A.; and Sharma, P. (1997) Cosmogenic 36Cl and 10Be ages of Quaternary glacial and fluvial deposits of the Wind River Range, Wyoming: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 109 1453-1463.
Chadwick, OA.; Hall, R.D.; and Phillips, F.M. (1997) Pleistocene glaciations in the Rocky Mountains: Bull Lake and Sacagawea Ridge revisited: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 109 1443-1452.
Zreda, M.; England, J.; Phillips, F.M.; Elmore, D.; and Sharma, P. (1999) Unblocking of Nares Strait by Greenland and Ellesmere ice-sheet retreat 10,000 years ago: Nature 398 139-142.
Jackson, L.E.; Phillips, F.M.; and Little, E.C. (1999) Cosmogenic 36Cl dating of the maximum limit of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in southwestern Alberta: Can. J. Earth Sci. 36 1347-1356.
Bowen, D.Q.; Phillips, F.M.; McCabe, A.M.; Knutz, P.C.; and Sykes, G.A. (2001) New data for the Last Glacial Maximum in Great Britain and Ireland: Quat. Sci. Rev. 21 89-101.
Walvoord, M.A.; Plummer, M.A.; Phillips, F.M.; and Wolfsberg, A.V., (2002) Deep arid system hydrodynamics, Part 1: Equilibrium states and response times in thick desert vadose zones: Water Resour. Res., 38(12), 1308, doi:10.1029/2001WR000824.
Walvoord M., Phillips F. M., Tyler S. W., and Hartsough P. C. (2002) Deep arid system hydrodynamics Part 2: Application to paleohydrologic reconstruction using vadose-zone profiles from the Northern Mojave Desert: Water Resour. Res., 38(12), 1291, doi:10.1029/2001WR000825.
Plummer, M.A.; and Phillips, F.M. (2003) A 2-D numerical model of snow/ice energy balance and ice flow for paleoclimatic interpretation of glacial geomorphic features: Quat. Sci. Rev. 22 1389-1406.
Phillips, F.M.; Walvoord, M.A.; and Small, E.E. (2004) Effects of environmental change on groundwater recharge in the Desert Southwest: In Groundwater Recharge in a Desert Environment: The Southwestern United States (Hogan, J.F.; Phillips, F.M.; and Scanlon, B.R; eds.), American Geophysical Union, Water Science and Applications Series, Vol. 9, Washington, D.C., p. 273-294.
Schaefer, J.M.; Denton, G.H.; Barrell, D.J.A.; Ivy-Ochs, S.; Kubik, P.W.; Phillips, F.M.; Lowell, T.; Schlüchter, C. (2006) Near-synchronous interhemispheric termination of the Last Glacial Maximum in mid-latitudes: Science 312 1510-1513.
Sandvig, R.C.; and Phillips, F.M. (2006) Ecohydrological controls on soil-moisture fluxes in arid vadose zones: Water Resour. Res., 42 W08422, doi:10.1029/2005WR004644.
Phillips F. M. (2008) Geological and hydrological history of the paleo-Owens River drainage since the late Miocene: In Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives (M. C. Reheis and R. Hershler; eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper 439, Boulder, Colorado, p. 115-150.
Jayko A. S., Forester R. M., Yount J. C., Kaufman D., McGeehin J., Phillips F. M., and Mahan S. A. (2008) Late Pleistocene lakes and wetlands, Panamint Valley, California, In Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives (M. C. Reheis and R. Hershler; eds.), Geological Society of America Special Paper 439, Boulder, Colorado, p. 151-184.
Machette M. N., Slate J. L., and Phillips F. M. (2008) Terrestrial cosmogenic-nuclide dating of alluvial fans in Death Valley National Park, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1755, 51 p.
Phillips, F.M.; Zreda, M.G.; Plummer, M.A.; Elmore, D.; and Clark, D.H. (2009) Glacial geology and chronology of Bishop Creek and vicinity, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 121 1013-1033.
Kurth, G.; Phillips, F.M.; Reheis, M.C.; Redwine, J.L; and Paces, J.B. (2011) Cosmogenic nuclide and uranium-series dating of old, high shorelines in the western Great Basin, USA: Geological Society of America Bulletin 123 744-768, doi:10.1130/B30010.1.
Phillips, F.M.; McIntosh, W.C.; and Dunbar, N.W. (2011) The chronology of late Cenozoic volcanic eruptions on relict surfaces in the south-central Sierra Nevada, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin 123 890-910.
Jackson L. E., Andriashek L. D., and Phillips F. M. (2011) Limits of successive middle and late Pleistocene continental ice sheets, Interior Plains of southern and central Alberta and adjacent areas, In Quaternary Glaciations – Extent and Chronology: A Closer Look (Developments in Quaternary Science, Vol. 15) (J. Ehlers, P. L. Gibbard, and P. D. Hughs; eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 575-589.
Kelly, M.A.; Lowell T.V.; Applegate, P.J.; Smith, C.A.; Phillips, F.M.; Hudson, A.M. (2012) Younger Dryas fluctuations of the Quelccaya Ice Cap in the southern tropics: Geology 40 991-994.
Phillips F. M. (2016) Constraints on cosmogenic nuclide production rates by samples from the Sierra Nevada, California: I. Late Pleistocene glacial chronology: Quaternary Geochronology.
Phillips F. (2017) Glacial chronology of the Sierra Nevada, California, from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene: Cuadernos de Investigación Geográphica 43 preprint, doi:10.18172/cig.3233.
Shi X., Furlong K. P., Kirby E., Meng K., Marrero S., Gosse J., Wang E., and Phillips F. (2017) Evaluating the size and extent of paleo-lakes in central Tibet during the Late Pleistocene: Geophysical Research Letters doi: 10.1002/2017GL072686.