Current oil price from www.oil-price.net:

Current commodity prices from www.oil-price.net:

Civilization Timescale (per Don)

Don created this chart using internet resources; it keeps things in perspective, especially regarding the competition between civilizations for mineral resources.

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Geologic Timescales

Three versions are offered below:
 http://www.stratigraphy.org/upload/ISChart2009.pdf 

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Plate Tectonics & Paleoclimate

Excellent references at http://www.scotese.com/

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Tectonic Plate Movement Reconstruction from 750 mya to Present

By the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, October 15, 2004

This is the best resource I've found for visualizing plate tectonic movement over the past 750 million years.

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Google Earth Add-In

Link to USGS' Google Earth add-in to get real time earthquake data in your  computer's Google Earth
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/

(click on the M1+ earthquakes, Past 7 days (colored
by age)

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Study of Geology

Here's an outline map of the components of Geologic Study.
We review at least the basics of all of these in our classes and tie these to your everyday life!

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Time Is Not Made to Flow in Vain:
Eternity and Apocalypse in Assynt and Mars

Wonderful notes on the joy of rockhounding from Scientific American's guest blogger

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