As this stanza, from the poem Prime Words, summarizes:
Virtual Reality in the Geosciences is in it's infancy;
Those working with Virtual Environments face the risks and upside of being first;
Virtual Environments have the potential to unleash the integrating power of our minds;
Visualization Technologies allows scale and time independent review, exploration, exploitation, and production of natural resources associated with geologic structures, stratigraphy, and processes; as well as
If we find characteristics defining natural resources in our data we will find the physical resources in the earth.