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Tag: natural disaster

A Look Back at Kilauea’s East Rift Eruption

October 20, 2019 BJ Deming

As the air chills and days grow shorter, this might be a good time to revisit my live-blog of the trial by fire that Hawaiians

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Mass extinction, Pt 3 of 3: Fashion, Chaos and Healthy Skepticism

August 8, 2014 BJ Deming

  We have seen that an impact was probably associated with the “dino-killing” K/T extinction, but not definitely with any of the other Big Five

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About Natural Disasters: Earth

March 25, 2013 BJ Deming

The old earth/wind/fire/water/space system of organizing things is unscientific, but as explained in the initial post of this series,  it gives an intuitive feel for

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BJ Deming

BJ Deming

After getting an associate's degree in forestry, I studied geology in the 1980s but went into another field instead. The Internet renewed my interest in geoscience as a hobby. So, when some free time opened up after I retired, I decided to write a book about cat evolution. That has turned into a series and started a new career! Currently, I'm working on the next book in the series: a quick overview of the whole cat family. That is, the cats we know today. After that, come the sabertooths!

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