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Oil sands scientist : the letters of Karl A. Clark, 1920-1949 / edited and with an introduction by Mary Clark Sheppard ; foreword by S. Robert Blair.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Karl A. (Karl Adolph), 1888-1966.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clark, Karl A. (Karl Adolph), 1888-1966.
- Clark, Karl A.
- Oil sands industry--Alberta--History.
- Oil sands industry.
- Athabasca Tar Sands (Alta.)--History.
- Athabasca Tar Sands (Alta.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (515 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press in association with Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, 1989.
- Summary:
- This collection of leters from the early 1920s to the late 1940s by Dr. Karl A. Clark chronicles the development of the hot water separation process for producing oil from the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART I - KARL CLARK, OIL SANDS SCIENTIST""; ""Clark's Early Years""; ""The Tar Sands Before Clark's Involvement""; ""Tar Sands Research Under the Alberta Government""; ""Commercial Interests""; ""The Depression Years""; ""Family Life""; ""The CM&S Initiative""; ""Developments During the War Years""; ""The Research Council Is Re-established""; ""The Post War Years and a New Pilot Plant""; ""After Bitumount�An Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""PART II - KARL CLARK LETTERS, 1920�1949""; ""Developing the Hot Water Process, 1920�1935""
- ""London and Trinidad, 1936�1937""""Abasand, CM&S and the War, 1938�1944""; ""The Post War Period: Working Towards Bitumount, 1945�1949""; ""Indexes""; ""Letters""; ""People""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Places""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Companies and Agencies""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""
- ""I""""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-4593-0434-9
- 1-4175-9150-1
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