Athabaska

British  

/ ˌæθəˈbæskə /

noun

1. a lake in W Canada, in NW Saskatchewan and NE Alberta. Area: about 7770 sq km (3000 sq miles)

2. a river in W Canada, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing northeast to Lake Athabaska. Length: 1230 km (765 miles)

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Example Sentences

The company that thinks it can turn the trick is California's Richfield Oil Corp., which last week formally asked permission of the Canadian government to set off a nuclear charge just under the Athabaska sands.

From Time Magazine Archive

To prepare for the day when conventional wells can no longer meet the world's needs, Exxon is already experimentally squeezing oil out of Rocky Mountain shale and the tar sands of northern Alberta's Athabaska region.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the Athabaska sands yield their treasure, an estimated 300 billion bbl. of crude can be freed in that region alone.

From Time Magazine Archive

The geological proving ground is the 30,000 sq. mi. of tar sands underlying northern Alberta and Saskatchewan in the vicinity of Lake Athabaska.

From Time Magazine Archive

This condition was in considerable contrast to the great spongy masses I had noted in the Tazin River basin, between Athabaska and Great Slave lakes, in 1914.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis