Annapolis, Md. A: The alcohol-based hand sanitizer that you may have stocked up on works wonders for removing pine pitch from almost any surface, and it won’t hurt asphalt or asphalt sealer.

The Caribbean island of Trinidad is home to the world's largest deposit of natural asphalt, called Pitch Lake. The surface of the lake is a mostly solid carpet of asphalt that can be walked on ...

I doubt whether many New-Yorkers know that a large share of the asphalt pavements they walk over in New-York and Brooklyn are made from pitch brought from a natural pitch lake on the island of ...

To the people of Venezuela this great deposit of asphalt is known as Largo La Brea, or the Lake of Pitch. The aborigines used its output for pitching the seams of their canoes and a variety of ...

Tar pitch, a carbonic substance also known as bitumen or asphalt, is so thick it appears solid at room temperature. Pitch is now estimated to be about 2 million times more viscous than honey and ...

Asphalt driveway patching can be challenging to do effectively on a strong slope. If your driveway has a grade of more than 15%, meaning it rises more than 1 and 1/2 feet for every 10 feet of ...

In appearance the surface of the Lake is a uniform expanse of asphalt which is intersected by areas of water, the extent of which naturally varies according to the season. This is the largest and most ...