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tar sands
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:tar sand-bed
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.
See: Alberta tar sands
Quotations
1897
Just at this place commence the wonderful tar sand-beds of the Athabasca, extending over an enormous area.
1905
The remarkable tar sands, lignite beds and gas deposits of Athabasca give promise of wondrous richness when fully developed. . . .
1964
I'll bet, unless you are closely associated with the tar sands of northern Alberta, you have all sorts of preconceived idea[s] of this natural phenomenon--mostly wrong.