Choose a particular geological process and write a five-page paper describing how this process significantly influenced several particular events in history. Discuss evidence supporting the roles of your chosen process. Your paper should be written so as to appeal to a general readership. Refer to at least five published sources of information, including at least one regular (non-encyclopaedic) book and one periodical.
Some of the geological processes which we have discussed in class, for example, include the following:
Note how this assignment differs from the previous one. For paper #2, you were asked to choose a single historical event and discuss how it was influenced by several processes. Here, you are to choose a single process and describe how it influenced several different historical events.
Please do not try to write a textbook entry describing your chosen process in great technical detail. Just give a brief but clear introduction to the nature of the geological process. Remember: this paper should be interesting to a general reader.