DCHP-3

oil sands†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an extensive sand formation along the Athabasca River impregnated with petroleum oil and tar.

Quotations

1954
A railway was also being promoted to build to Ft. McMurray in the oil sands belt on the Athabasca.
1957
The Royalite Oil Co has announced that it will soon begin construction of an oil separation plant at the Athabaska oil sands a few miles from Waterways which will cost fifty million.
1964
One time it [tar sands] was the accepted term, now it would appear "oil sands" is more accepted, although this is also open to criticism.