NALT

Preferred term

oil sands

Topic

Oil sands are a combination of clay, sand, water, and bitumen, a heavy black viscous oil. Oil sands can be mined and processed to extract the oil-rich bitumen, which is then refined into oil. The bitumen in oil sands cannot be pumped from the ground in its natural state; instead oil sand deposits are mined, usually using strip mining or open pit techniques, or the oil is extracted by underground heating with additional upgrading.

bituminous sands

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

53239

Spanish

arenas de alquitrán

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/105520

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Created 11/5/07, last modified 12/6/17