Pitch Lake is an eerie, alien place. An oozing, boiling, thick mass of liquid asphalt, stretching out across an area of more than 100 acres (about 90 football fields) and descending over 250 feet ...

trinidad's lake of pitch; a hundred acres of natural asphalt pavement. how it is reached and what it looks like--making pitch reefs in the sea--a trinidad country house.

THE ASPHALT LAKE IN VENEZUELA; Deposit of Pitch Inexhaustible and Should Last for Ages. HUGE BLACK SEA OF WEALTH Its Value Almost Incalculable -- Some Data Regarding the Locality Where the Present ...

American Journal of Science, March.—Trinidad pitch, by S. F. Peckham and Laura A. Linton. This paper gives an account of the physical and chemical properties of pitch from the Pitch Lake of ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Asphaltum and the Pitch Lake of Trinidad ” in SA Supplements Vol. 24 No. 605supp (August 1887), p. 9658 doi:10.1038 ...