The Pitch Lake is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world, estimated to contain 10 million tons. It is located in La Brea in southwest Trinidad...
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of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years...
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Tar pit (redirect from Asphalt lake)
"Pitch Lake, Trinidad - a geological wonder that is mined for asphalt". National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved April 26, 2021. "La Brea Pitch Lake". UNESCO...
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Angeles, a large apartment community La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago, home to the Pitch Lake La Brea District, in Peru La Brea (TV series), a 2021–2024 American...
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pitch") is best known as the site of the Pitch Lake, a natural asphalt lake. Pronunciation of "La Brea" differs from that used in the USA at the La Brea...
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the Pitch Lake. The business was founded in 1851 by the tenth Earl of Dundonald who took out a patent for the use of asphalt from the Lake at La Brea. J...
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Archaeological Site". whc.unesco.org. Retrieved 9 December 2020. "La Brea Pitch Lake". whc.unesco.org. Retrieved 9 December 2020. "Tobago Main Ridge Forest...
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Carpinteria Tar Pits (category Asphalt lakes)
asphalt lake areas similar to Tierra de Brea Trinidad and Tobago, Lake Guanoco in Venezuela and the La Brea Tar Pits (Los Angeles) and McKittrick Tar...
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America. Lake Guanoco is one of the five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, the others being Pitch Lake in Trinidad and Tobago and La Brea Tar Pits...
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List of tar pits (category Asphalt lakes)
recovered from the pits are on display at the Baku Natural-Historical Museum. La Brea Tar Pits – group of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed in urban...
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McKittrick Tar Pits (category Asphalt lakes)
Tar Pits (also McKittrick Oil Seeps and McKittrick Brea Pits) are a series of natural asphalt lakes situated in the western part of Kern County in southern...
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bounded by La Brea Avenue, Marlton Avenue, Obama Boulevard, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Santo Thomas Drive. Baldwin Vista is bounded by La Cienega...
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Petroleum seep (category Asphalt lakes)
Raleigh's account of the Pitch Lake on Trinidad in 1595. Thirty-seven years later, the account of a visit of a Franciscan, Joseph de la Roche d'Allion, to the...
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a stevedore, working for Brighton Lake Asphalt, which produced and exported asphalt from the Pitch Lake in La Brea. He initially joined the Trinidad Workingmen's...
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bitumen include lakes such as the Pitch Lake in Trinidad and Tobago and Lake Bermudez in Venezuela. Natural seeps occur in the La Brea Tar Pits and the...
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southern lapwing found in California; its remains have been found at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Separated by the Rocky Mountains, V. downsi makes...
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conception of timing and dialogue was formed by watching the action in the La Brea tar pits. It would be complimentary to call it sluggish. Not only Bugs...
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"Denise Richards' "La Piscine" Is A Hilarious Jab At LuAnn De Lesseps". Crushable. "Disney+'s Zootopia+ Trailer Teases A Pitch Perfect Real Housewives...
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Berman, Marc (February 1, 2023). "Tuesday Ratings: Soft Return for NBC's 'La Brea'; Another Solid Showing for the Peacock Net's 'Night Court' Reboot". Programming...
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of 13 August 2009[update], the Hawaii Mars was in service fighting the La Brea Fire east of Santa Maria in Southern California. The aircraft can carry...
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San Antonio, Texas San Pitch Recreation Area, located in the western portion of the Manti-La Sal National Forest and San Pitch Mountains, in central Utah...
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1938 to 1948. In 1888 Barber leased the largest know asphalt deposit at Pitch Lake Trinidad. Barber opened a subsidiary, called the Iroquois division, and...
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In 1956, Karcher opened the first Carl's Jr. restaurants in Anaheim and Brea, California. In 1996, CKE acquired Rally's and Taco Bueno. Rally's was later...
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History of the petroleum industry (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
1857 to a depth of 280 ft by the American Merrimac Company in La Brea (Spanish for “Pitch”) in southeast Trinidad in the Caribbean. Distillation of oil...
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County cities of Brea and Yorba Linda to the west and southwest, respectively, as well as an unincorporated area of Orange County between Brea and Yorba Linda...
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Denise (July 15, 2021). "NBC Sets Fall Premiere Dates: New 'Ordinary Joe', 'La Brea', Returning 'Chicago', 'Law & Order'; 'The Blacklist' Moves To Thursdays"...
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CBS and NBC Share Leadership; Respectable Week 3 Performance for NBC's 'La Brea'". Programming Insider. Archived from the original on April 9, 2022. Retrieved...
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Rocko's Modern Life (redirect from La vida moderna de rocko)
took his team members on "writing trips" to places such as Rocky's, the La Brea Tar Pits, and the wilderness. If he liked the story premises, the writers...
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and concrete to endure the fire effects, and had its design based on the La Brea Tar Pits, with Muto describing them as "just the sort of place in which...
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massacre. The American Merrimac Oil Company drilled an early oil well at La Brea at Trinidad and Tobago in 1857, where oil was struck at 280 feet (85 m)...
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