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	La Brea Tar Pits
		Tar pits form when crude oil seeps to the surface through fissures in the Earth's crust; the light fraction of the oil evaporates, leaving behind the heavy tar, or asphalt, in sticky pools.
		Tar from the La Brea tar pits was used for thousands of years by local native Americans, as a glue and as waterproof caulking for baskets and canoes.
		After the arrival of Westerners, the tar from these pits was mined and used for roofing by the inhabitants of the nearby town of Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /quaternary/labrea.html (812 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brea is Spanish for "tar", "The La Brea Tar Pits" being a redundant "The The Tar Tar Pits" (an example of pleonasm).
		The 'tar' pits were used as a source of asphalt (for use as low-grade fuel and for waterproofing and insulation) by early settlers of the Los Angeles area.
		Among the prehistoric species associated with the La Brea Tar Pits are mammoths, dire wolves, short-faced bears, ground sloths, and the state fossil of California, the saber-toothed cat, Smilodon californicus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits (853 words)

	LA BREA TAR PITS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		What became known as the La Brea Tarpits were first discovered by white men in 1769 when the Portola expedition passed through what is now known as Hancock Park.
		The diary of Father Crespi of the expedition noted that members of the expedition "saw some large marshes of a certain substance like pitch; they were boiling and bubbling, and the pitch came out mixed with an abundance of water." This is the first indication of oil in western America.
		Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, has been constructed adjacent to the tar pits.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/historic/la_brea_tarpits.html (124 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits: An Introductory History (1769–1969)
		The Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California are widely regarded as one of the richest sources of mammal fossils in the world.
		The tar was a useful substance to Indians in the region, who used it to caulk their canoes, waterproof their baskets, and attach wooden handles to stone blades.
		Besides the constricted size of the pits, an additional difficulty for the entrapment theory is the transitory character of the tar itself.
	www.creationresearch.org /crsq/articles/38/38_4/LaBrea.htm (4604 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits - Paleontology and Geology Glossary
		The Rancho La Brea Tar Pits are a series of over 100 asphalt pits located in Los Angeles, California, USA ("brea" means "tar" in Spanish).
		The plants that have been found in the tar pits are similar to those that now live about 300 miles to the north of the area (in a cooler, moister coastal region).
		Tar pits are pools of gooey asphalt that are created when crude oil seeps up from deep inside the Earth through a crack (called a fissure).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/Labrea.shtml (403 words)

	Geology of the McKittrick Tar Pits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although the La Brea Tar Pits are better known, the tar pits at McKittrick, on the westside of the San Joaquin Valley, contain an equally rich assemblage of ancient plants and animals that were trapped in asphalt pits and preserved as fossils.
		The diversity of fossils found in the tar pits is amazing and includes hundreds of plants and animals that range from pollen spores and insects to Saber-toothed Tigers and Wooly Mammoths, animals that roamed the southern California landscape during the last Pleistocene Ice Age some 10,000 to 40,000 years ago.
		The McKittrick Tar Pits sit on the westside of the San Joaquin Valley where stream gravels, alluvial sands, and lacustrine clays cover older marine rocks that are rich in oil.
	www.sjgs.com /tarpits_geol.html (1039 words)

	The La Brea Tar Pits
		Statues of a family of mammoths in the big pit near the corner of Wilshire and Curson suggest how many of them were entombed: edging down to a pond of water to drink, animals were caught in the tar and unable to extricate themselves.
		There are several pits scattered around Hancock Park and the surrounding neighborhood; construction in the area has often had to accommodate them and, in nearby streets and along sidewalks, little bits of tar occasionally and unstoppably ooze up.
		The tar pits were described by the early settlers out here in the mid-eighteenth century - "La Brea" is Spanish for "the tar" - and seemed be used as a source of asphalt, used for insulation and this and that.
	www.justabovesunset.com /id923.html (898 words)

	Tar pit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A tar pit, or more properly asphalt pit, is a geological occurrence where subterranean bitumen leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle, pit, or lake of asphalt.
		Animals are sometimes unable to escape from the asphalt if they fall in and this makes these pits excellent locations to excavate bones of prehistoric animals.
		La Brea Tar Pits have a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tar_pit (129 words)

	L.A.'s Oldest Tourist Trap: Science News Online, Jan. 24, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In particular, the respective ratios of carbon isotopes and nitrogen isotopes in bones excavated from the tar pits shed light on dietary habits of the very animal from which the bone derived.
		Since excavations began at La Brea more than a century ago, the remains of more than 650 species, including at least 60 mammal species, 140 types of plants, 120 varieties of insects, and 60 species of snails and other mollusks have been yanked from the tar-laden sediments.
		Although the tar pits trapped most of their victims between 44,000 years and 4,000 years ago, they're still a danger for the unwitting creature.
	www.sciencenews.org /20040124/bob9.asp (2309 words)

	The La Brea Tar Pits as Evidence of a Worldwide Flood
		The fossil-bearing tar pits that would become famous during the first decades of the twentieth century were nowhere to be seen when geologists first visited the area.
		Although Pit 16 was notable for being one of the seven major pits containing copious amounts of fossils, it is still hard to imagine it as one of "death traps of the ages."
		The evidence of water catastrophism at the La Brea Tar Pits dovetails with Prestwich's hypothesis regarding the submergence and re-emergence of Western Europe.
	www.creationscienceoc.org /Articles/labrea.html (5248 words)

	The Epoch Times :: EXPLORATIONS - La Brea Tar Pits
		The La Brea Tar pits are one of the most unusual scientific research areas in the United States.
		Rancho La Brea is now the home of a modern research center and museum.
		The La Brea area and much of California was part of the Pacific Ocean when dinosaurs were alive in North America.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-3-25/20377.html (1205 words)

	'AntiEcohype': La Brea Tar Pits Essay
		She was aged 18 to 25, about 4 feet 8 inches tall, and the fractures in her cranium may have been caused by a grinding stone found only 4 inches from her skeleton.
		'La Brea Woman', as she is affectionately known, was discovered in 1914 at Tar Pit 10.
		I find it deeply depressing that La Brea has to offer a dinosaur exhibition just in case visitors find the changing reality of the last 40,000 years, and of the present, and of the future too uninteresting or too difficult to grasp.
	www.probiotech.fsnet.co.uk /tarpit.html (973 words)

	California prehistory mired in La Brea tar pits
		LA BREA, Calif. — The world, 40,000 years ago — The weather's perfect.
		The principle causes of extinction were global cooling and the arrival of the original Americans, who crossed the ice bridge from Mongolia and then ate their way south from the Bering Strait to the tip of Patagonia.
		Now — A fraction of the La Brea finds are on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, though there's still enough to keep a visitor busy — even if, as one study found, the average person devotes just 2.7 seconds looking at a museum exhibit.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/news284.htm (898 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In fact, the rocks where the La Brea Tar pits sit aren't even as old as this.
		Today, the tar pits are surounded by a nice park which sits very close to the Los Angeles County museum of art.
		Its seems hard to imagine but most scientists believe that so many animal remains have been found in the pits because the animals confused them for water holes and were lured in by their desire for a drink of fresh water.
	www.soest.hawaii.edu /GG/ASK/LaBrea.html (236 words)

	Los Angeles, California 2001 : La Brea Tar Pits
		Not only that, but these tar pits captured thousands of animals in their 40,000 years of existence.
		A mass of bones in tar as it would be pulled out of the pit.
		On top of the museum is a platform to view the pit and a tropical garden in the center.
	www.gagme.com /greg/vacation/2001/la/labrea.php (387 words)

	Rancho La Brea Tar Pits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The tar pit fossils are a window into life in southern California from 40,000 to 8,000 years ago.
		Many of the plants and animals found in La Brea are identical or almost identical with species that still live in the area today.
		Return to the Ice Age: The La Brea Exploration Guide: An on-line tour of geology, flora, and fauna of the La Brea Tar Pits.
	www.paleoportal.org /famous_finds/assemblage.php?assemblage_id=4 (276 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		tar (Spanish brea) pits, in Hancock Park (Rancho La Brea), Los Angeles, California, U.S. The area was the site of “pitch springs” oozing crude oil that was used by local Indians for waterproofing.
		The tar pits are thick, sticky pools of viscous asphalt (the lowest grade of crude oil) that…
		It is probably the most common mammalian species to be found preserved in the La Brea Tar Pits in southern California.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9046601?tocId=9046601 (816 words)

	Cruft: La Brea Tar Pits
		To those not from Los Angeles, the Tar Pits are an area where oil and asphalt have risen to the surface in the middle of the city for the last 40,000 years at least.
		Water would collect on top of the asphalt and thousands of animals got caught in the tar trap, their bones preserved for centuries.
		The Tar Pits are a common destination for LA schoolchildren and the museum is well suited for kids.
	www.cruftbox.com /blog/archives/001015.html (196 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Part of the Natural History Museum of LA County, the tar pits and the George C. Page Museum are on Wilshire Blvd near Fairfax Avenue.
		This area was once Rancho La Brea, a 4,444 acre ranch -- hard to believe, since it now includes Wilshire Blvd.'s "Miracle Mile".
		An excavation (Pit 91) is currently worked and open for observation during the summer months.
	www.sprick.net /Photos/LA/TarPits/TarPits.htm (111 words)

	Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits - Los Angeles - Reviews of Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits - TripAdvisor
		In the few days that I was in LA, one of the places I had to see was the La Brea Tar Pits.
		the tar pits are outside, so at least walk through the park and take a picture in front of the tar pits if you don't want to spend the $7 to go inside the museum.
		Sep 13, 2005 A TripAdvisor Member, L.A. Needs more what can I say I brought my husband here 2 months ago,he grew up in MI and heard great things about the Tar Pits, he was disappointed, I had been there many times and knew it is lacking something...
	www.tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g32655-d143830-Reviews-Page_Museum_at_the_La_Brea_Tar_Pits-Los_Angeles_California.html (1101 words)

	Darla Kay's - La Brea Tar Pits
		In the La Brea Tar Pits Museum (right next to the tar), there are bones of some of the animals found in the tar, mostly bones of dire wolves (above,left).
		There's a big fence around the tar so you don't fall in, but the tar will bubble up out of the ground outside the fence in tiny places.
		I gathered a little piece of tar when I was there as a souvenir, stuck it in a cigarette pack.
	www.uark.edu /~dksander/travel/west/california/la/labreatarpits (187 words)

	Travel for Kids: Los Angeles: Park La Brea
		La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum – If there's one museum you should see with your kids, it's the La Brea Tar Pits.
		There are several replicas of Ice Age animals, thoughtfully stuck in the pits to give you an idea of what happened thousands of years ago.
		Picnic tables are situated with a good view of the tar pits.
	www.travelforkids.com /Funtodo/California/Los_Angeles/losangelesparklabrea.htm (712 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits Photo Tour
		tar oozing out of ground, west end of park, it just seeps upward.
		working dig in a tar pit, west end of park; steel framework for mapping exact location of bones found.
		This is an active pit for several months year when it is drained and excavated.
	www.rth.org /tarpits (616 words)

	Handmade La Brea Tar Pits Glycerin Shea Butter Soap Whipped Shea Butter
		La Brea Tar Pits glycerin soap is uniquely shaped, a special mold is used, and is gently exfoliating due to the addition of whole rolled oats and cornmeal.
		And yes, it does remove tar -- it's named after those great big fenced in pits of tar located in Los Angeles, California.
		La Brea Tar Pits Glycerin Soap is also available in a 2 ounce Travel Size bar!
	www.everythingshea.com /labreatarpitsglycerinsoap.htm (290 words)

	Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits - L.A. - calendarlive.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The ice age fossils and skeletons excavated from the tar pits are between 10,000 and 40,000 years old.
		Her remains were found in 1914 and are the only human bones ever to be discovered in the pits.
		You'll see replicas of animals throughout the park and among the pits of fl sludge that were first discovered in 1769.
	calendarlive.com /galleriesandmuseums/74709,0,1434736.location?... (340 words)

	The La Brea Dinosaur Tar Pits in California - From the Dark Stream.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The La Brea Dinosaur Tar Pits in California - From the Dark Stream.Com
		The La Brea Dinosaur Tar Pits in California
		The Rancho La Brea Tar Pits are a series of over 100 asphalt pits located in Los Angeles,
	fromthedarkstream.bloghi.com /2006/02/21/the-la-brea-dinosaur-tar-pits-in-california.html (797 words)

	November 14, 2003, Hour Two: LaBrea Tar Pits
		That’s because the museum is located at the La Brea tar pits, from which more than two million Ice Age fossils representing 650 different species of plant, animal, and insect have been unearthed.
		Tar is the result of decaying plant material such as peat moss, while oil is the product of the decay of animals.
		La Brea Tar Pits Photo Tour gives an extensive tour of the museum inside and out, and students can see artist William Huff’s sculptural renderings of a few of the La Brea site species at
	www.sciencefriday.com /kids/sfkc20031114-2.html (1407 words)

	La Brea Tar Seep (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Rancho La Brea Tar Pits is one of the world's most famous fossil localities, located 5 miles west of downtown Los Angeles.
		Drawing from Rancho La Brea, A Record of Pleistocene Life in California.
		This caracara, an extinct vulture, is just one of many animals that died after being mired in the La Brea Tar Pits.
	seeps.wr.usgs.gov /seeps/la_brea.html (180 words)

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