Asphalt lake (geology)
The McKittrick Tar Pits asphalt pit in Kern County , California
Asphalt pond of the La Brea Tar Pits , Los Angeles, California
An asphalt lake (also asphalt pit , asphalt pond or Pechsee ) is a natural occurrence of asphalt .
Emergence
If heavy, viscous and tar-like petroleum comes to the surface at an oil well , asphalt cones form. These can reach diameters of up to several hundred meters and heights of up to 30 meters.
If the volatile components evaporate, the asphalt hardens. Active asphalt oil wells have liquid petroleum under the hard asphalt layer. If such a source is no longer active, the entire mass solidifies to asphalt.
Examples of asphalt lakes and pits
- La Brea Pitch Lake in Trinidad
- Bermudez Lake in Sucre , Venezuela
- Bad luck of Sakhalin , Russia
- La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles , California
- McKittrick Tar Pits near Bakersfield , California
- Carpinteria tar pits in Carpinteria , California
- Asphalt lakes in Hīt , Iraq
- Asphalt lakes in Binəqədi , Azerbaijan
- Puy de la Poix in Clermont-Ferrand , France
literature
- Ernst Blumer: The oil deposits and other hydrocarbon deposits in the earth's crust - basics of petroleum geology. Enke, Stuttgart 1922, pp. 30-43 (reprint Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86444-777-8 ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life in a war zone - Philly steaks and tar pits. (No longer available online.) May 3, 2007, archived from the original ; accessed on September 5, 2014 .