Form of petroleum primarily used in road construction

Observations on bituminous substances, with a description of the varieties of the elastic bitumen ... Read in the Linnaean Soc / by Charles Hatchett.

Petroleum and bitumen in antiquity / by R.J. Forbes.

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Bitumen

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Observations on bituminous substances, with a description of the varieties of the elastic bitumen ... Read in the Linnaean Soc / by Charles Hatchett.

Petroleum and bitumen in antiquity / by R.J. Forbes.