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.

Over the past week, scientists have published the results of studies analyzing two very strange -- and very different -- lakes.

The surface of the lake is a mostly solid carpet of asphalt that can be walked on, attracting some 200,000 tourists each year. The lake is also mined for asphalt — called "pitch" in its crude ...

Trinidad's Pitch Lake provides the tar that smooths North American and European streets. Getting there is a surprisingly bumpy journey.

The Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago has a natural wonder of the world - a Pitch Lake. It's a basin of emulsified asphalt. Pauline Newman reports on efforts to study the area and the hope ...

Unlike Titan, he says, Pitch Lake still has some water that the microbes could live in. “The hydrocarbon is the food. On Titan the hydrocarbon lakes replace the water.