Alberta sulfur pyramids (nonfiction)

Alberta sulfur pyramids. (Photo by Jason Woodhead.)

The Alberta sulfur pyramids are a group of three large pyramidal structures composed primarily of sulfur.

The pyramids are located in Alberta, Canada.

The sulfur is produced as a byproduct of petroleum extraction and processing by Canadian oil company Syncrude.

In the News

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  SOEP planning first strike on Alberta sulfur pyramids, warn oil analysts.

Fiction cross-reference

• Comer's Midden Monster - attracted to aroma of sulfur.
• Crimes against chemical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels - an interspecies organization of 13 stomach oil (nonfiction)-exporting varieties of petrel (nonfiction).

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Petroleum (nonfiction)
• Project Oilsand (nonfiction)
• Sulfur (nonfiction) - (in British English, sulphur) a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent, and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula S8. Elemental sulfur is a bright yellow, crystalline solid at room temperature.

External links

• Athabasca oil sands @ Wikipedia
• Great Sulfur Pyramids @ Boing Boing