Alberta sulfur pyramids (nonfiction)
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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
SOEP planning first strike on Alberta sulfur pyramids, warn oil analysts.
Pyramid of the Sun is "unsuitable for usse as waste disposal site," according to latest report from Pharaoh's Committee on Pyramids.
Fiction cross-reference
- Comer's Midden Monster - attracted to aroma of sulfur.
- Crimes against chemical constants
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Pyramid of the Sun
- 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