Please answer the following question: What key details about philip burke king can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: philip burke king -lrb- september 24 , 1903 -- april 25 , 1987 -rrb- was a geologist who worked for the united states geological survey . he was born in chester , indiana . king graduated from iowa state university -lrb- b.a. , 1924 ; m.s. , 1927 -rrb- and yale university -lrb- ph.d. , 1929 -rrb- . he spent most of his career from 1930 onward as a geologist with the u.s. geological survey . he taught at universities for short periods : -lrb- texas , 1925-27 -rrb- , arizona -lrb- 1929-30 -rrb- , ucla -lrb- 1954-56 -rrb- , and in the autumn of 1965 was a visiting lecturer at the university of moscow . in 1965 , he was awarded the penrose medal of the geological society of america and the distinguished service medal of the u.s. department of interior . he was elected to the american academy of arts and sciences in 1966 . he was attending the international geological congress meeting in prague in august , 1968 , when the soviets invaded ; he was evacuated to nuremberg . king did his early field work -lrb- 1925 -rrb- in the marathon region , an area of about in the trans-pecos part of texas , where varied rocks and structures that were formed during the paleozoic have been stripped of the cover of younger strata that conceal them elsewhere in this part of the southwest . his first field work in the marathon region was on permian marine strata that form a sequence about thick on the northern side of the glass mountains . instead of an orderly sequence , the strata of the glass mountains were a disorderly array of discontinuous bodies of carbonate rocks , shale , and sandstone . an opportunity to clarify the permian stratigraphy of western texas came later -lrb- 1934 -rrb- , when king began work in the southern guadalupe mountains about northwest of the glass mountains . during king 's field work there , he gave much attention to the capitan limestone , which stands in lofty white cliffs at the summit of the mountains . in 1940-44 , the wartime search for strategic minerals by the u.s. geological survey afforded...
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- prizes is penrose medal -lrb- 1965 -rrb-- work institutions is us geological survey- death date is 25 april 1987- field is geology- birth date is 24 september 1903- name is philip burke king- nationality is united states- birth place is chester , indiana , usa- alma mater is iowa state university and yale university