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	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 (863 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits: A Critique of Animal Entrapment Theories
		While the average size of a tar pit was 15 feet in diameter at the surface (the largest one having a semi-commodious measurement of 25 x 15 feet at the surface), the smaller pits with diameters of five feet or less present a serious challenge to animal entrapment scenario writers.
		The fact that bones were found in pit-like formations is due to the tar vents saturating and preserving the bones within their reach, while the remaining bones beyond the margin disappeared through the attritional effects of weather and decay.
		Pit 3 began on July 16, 1913 as an exploratory trench from the bank of a man-made pond.
	www.crsq.org /crsq/articles/39/39_3/LaBrea.htm (5563 words)

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		Tar is a viscous fl liquid derived from the destructive distillation of organic matter.
		Other major landmarks include a tar pit">tar pit, a misty swamp filled with dead trees that appears to be locked in darkness even during the day, some high bluffs containing natural caves, and a narrow canyon or chasm that extends into the mountains.
		Tar Pit is a fictional supervillain in the DC comics and one of the new rogues of the current Flash (Wally West).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tar-pit.htm (538 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits
		For these are the La Brea tar pits, containing one of the richest, best preserved, and best studied assemblages of Pleistocene vertebrates, including at least 59 species of mammal and over 135 species of bird.
		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.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /quaternary/labrea.html (812 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)

	Page Museum - La Brea Tar Pits
		Pit 91 is located in Hancock Park at 5801 Wilshire Boulevard, at Curson Avenue in Los Angeles.
		Rancho La Brea, frequently referred to as the "Tar Pits" is one of the richest and most famous asphalt deposits of Ice Age fossils in the world.
		Tar is a by-product of destructive distillation of woody materials, such as coal or peat.
	www.tarpits.org /research/pit91/pitfacts.html (763 words)

	WTF Gallery: The tar pit of Lentiira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The pit, 23 metres in diameter at the top, is shaped like an inverted cone, the tip of which is a couple of metres below the ground surface.
		This pit had a circumference of 73 metres, so dozens of people had to be ready with their matches.
		While the pit is smouldering, the peat cover is whacked with wooden cudgels to keep it dense and poor in oxygen.
	www.publiscan.fi /gal-tee.htm (425 words)

	Welcome to Flaphead.com @ Home : Microsoft Security Advisory (842851): Clarification Of The SMTP Tar Pit Feature That ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The tar pit feature does not correct a security vulnerability, but instead is an additional feature that may be useful for some customers.
		Tar pitting is a feature available not only in Microsoft Windows 2003 but also in other SMTP servers.
		The Windows 2003 tar pit feature may slow down the transmission of spam that is sent to large numbers of e-mail addresses that are not valid, thus preventing your server from unnecessarily processing large amounts of spam mail.
	blog.flaphead.dns2go.com /archive/2005/05/11/1969.aspx (634 words)

	SMTP tar pit feature for Microsoft Windows Server 2003
		Tar pitting is the practice of deliberately inserting a delay into certain SMTP communications that are associated with spam or with other unwanted traffic.
		Tar pitting is one more option to defend against the misuse of SMTP while minimizing the effect on legitimate users.
		Tar pitting is a feature of the generic Windows Server 2003 SMTP service.
	support.microsoft.com /?kbid=842851 (1694 words)

	ATSDR - MATHESON GAS PRODUCTS, INCORPORATED, JOLIET, WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS
		The highest concentrations of contaminants capable of causing adverse health effects were inside and at the edges of the tar pit, the quarry pond, and the dry former creek beds.
		The tar pit holds refinery waste that is still contained in the unit, but there are no controls to prevent a release.
		The tar pit and the quarry pond are open water surfaces, and contaminants may volatilize into the air and reach nearby yards and houses.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/matheson/mat_p2.html (1910 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits: An Introductory History (1769–1969)
		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.
		Given this observable property of oil congelation, the existence of open pits of tar that could trap animals over a period of thousands of years must be regarded as highly improbable.
	www.creationresearch.org /crsq/articles/38/38_4/LaBrea.htm (4604 words)

	ipedia.com: Tar pit Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A tar pit, or more properly asphalt pit, is a geological occurrence where subterranean asphalt leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle of asphalt.
		A tar pit, or more properly asphalt pit, is a geological occurrence where subterranean asphalt leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of asphalt.
		La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles) has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
	www.ipedia.com /tar_pit.html (148 words)

	Museum tar lump display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This new display came from the Bakersfield area and is similar to what has been found at the famous La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles.
		This small sample displays many bones from animals that were trapped and died in a tar pit 4000 to 8000 years ago.
		During the heat of the summer the semi-solid tar turned softer and stickier.
	www.sierra.cc.ca.us /museum/tarlump.html (252 words)

	DEA Briefs & Background, Law Enforcement, Major Operations, Operation Tar Pit
		In March 2000, the DEA concluded Operation Tar Pit, which targeted a Mexico-based fl tar heroin trafficking organization.
		The San Diego investigation revealed that a trafficking organization that was the source of much of the high-purity fl tar heroin being trafficked in the San Diego area had established distribution cells in several other U.S. cities.
		Operation Tar Pit was conducted by the DEA exclusively within the United States and specifically targeted a fl tar heroin trafficking organization based in Nayarit, Mexico.
	www.usdoj.gov /dea/major/tarpit.htm (305 words)

	tar pit habitat
		I hope that the tar pit could be about the size of my living room which is 16 by 22 feet.
		The pictures that I have seen of tar pits show them to be covered with all sorts of loose stuff and standing water so that the tar itself is barely visible.
		What you do is insert the bladders in strategic locations betwen the sheets of plastic(polyethylene) when hooked up to a pump they will expand till they reach their limit, and then the exhaust valve will release the overfill air and it will relax and start the process all over.
	www.taxidermy.net /forums/HabitatArticles/03/03C6645EF9.html (1227 words)

	Land of the Lost dot com Forums - Episode 18: Tar Pit
		As with some of similarly sci-fi-thin stories of the first season, including “Dopey” and “Tag-Team,” the simplicity of the plot helps keep “Tar Pit” from falling into the trap of bizarre plots that cannot realistically be explained and resolved in the allotted time.
		Like I said, the tar pit itself, including the action with Spot and Dopey, is very well-done — it looks for all the world like what it claims to be.
		“Tar Pit” is still disappointing 30 years later, but we can live with it because now we know that some of the best stories in the series are coming up.
	www.landofthelost.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3390 (3244 words)

	CNN.com - Tar pit remains help rewrite Los Angeles' ancient history - August 28, 2000
		The cast of known species has grown to 650, with the biggest jump seen among smaller creatures whose bones were missed or ignored by early diggers using big shovels and chisels.
		Contrary to some depictions, the "pits" are just shallow puddles of water and seeping asphalt.
		The "tar" is actually asphalt formed by decaying marine plankton that lived millions of years ago.
	www.cnn.com /2000/NATURE/08/28/tar.pits.ap (770 words)

	September 2002 - Hacker Tar Pit - LaBrea slows down port scans and worm attacks...possibly forever. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Any TCP packets destined for the tar pit's address are also collected by LaBrea and acknowledged with specially crafted lies.
		Effectively, the client's connection has been accepted, and the tar pit is now ready to receive data.
		However, to make TCP more efficient, the protocol's designers built in the notion of a "receive window"--a bit of advice one networked system can include in each packet to tell the other how busy it is in terms of bytes of data it's expected to accept.
	infosecuritymag.techtarget.com /2002/sep/cooltools.shtml (767 words)

	TURING TAR-PIT - Definition
		That is, it's theoretically universal but in practice, the harder you struggle to get any real work done, the deeper its inadequacies suck you in.
		A tar pit is a geological occurence where subterranean tar leaks to the surface, creating a large puddle (or pit) of tar.
		La Brea, California, has a museum built around the fossilized remains of mammals and birds found in such a tar pit.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /computing/turing+tar-pit (142 words)

	TarpitTime has been implemented (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tar pitting is the practice of intentionally slowing down or delaying illegitimate connections to reduce the rate at which automated spam can be sent or at which a dictionary harvest attack can be conducted.
		The tar pit feature that is available in Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) can be added to work with recipient filtering as described in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 842851, "SMTP tar pit feature for Microsoft Windows Server 2003" (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=3052andkbid=842851).
		Specifically, the tar pit feature extends the usefulness of recipient filtering when the Filter recipients who are not in the Directory check box is selected on the Recipient Filtering tab in Global Settings.
	www.microsoft.com /technet/prodtechnol/exchange/Analyzer/f8a08dde-6523-46ab-9e77-7ae3864c22cc.mspx (619 words)

	Tar pit
		There are three known asphalt lakes worldwide; they are: Pitch Lake at La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago, La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, and a tar lake in Venezuela.
		However, the actual tar exposure, and hence health risk, from smoking low tar brands may be the almost the same as for conventional cigarettes.
		Forum for those interested in preserving the pit bull in its original form as a game-bred dog and in its modern incarnations as a loving companion.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Tarpits (1360 words)

	NBC 4 - News - Tar Pit Visitors Can Watch Excavation This Weekend
		The tar pitt's Page Museum is reopening Pit 91, as it does each summer.
		No remains of cavemen have ever been found in the tar pits, officials said.
		The tar pits are in Hancock Park off Wilshire Boulevard between Curson and Ogden avenues.
	www.nbc4.tv /news/4645840/detail.html?subid=10101581 (307 words)

	Tar pit: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tar pit: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		The la brea tar pits are tar pits in hancock park, los angeles, california; here buried asphalt seeps to the surface from the extensive petroleum deposits...
		Open-pit mining refers to a method of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tar_pit.htm (713 words)

	Windows-based SMTP Tar Pitting Explained
		As mentioned SMTP Tar Pitting is a method with which you can delay or slow down server responses for certain SMTP communication patterns, more specifically, responses containing 5.x.x error codes (for a list of 5.x.x error codes see MS KB article 284204).
		The intention for the SMTP Tar Pitting feature is to delay or slow down spam sent to a large number of non-valid e-mail addresses for a specified number of seconds.
		SMTP Tar Pitting is also NOT a security hotfix that should be installed by each and every Exchange Administrator around the world, instead consider it a feature that, depending on your Exchange environment, may or may not be useful.
	msexchange.org /tutorials/Windows-based-SMTP-Tar-Pitting-Explained.html (1610 words)

	85search - L A Ca Tar Pit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The La Brea Tar Pits as Evidence of a Worldwide Flood.
		The first discovered fossil-bearing tar pit was the one designated by...
		Pit 91 at the La Brea Tar Pits is the world’s only Ice Age fossil excavation site in...
	www.search-online.org /keyword/l-a-ca-tar-pit.html (685 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)

	Tar Pit
		After several “joyrides,“ he entered a vat of hot tar and went on a rampage at a Keystone Combines hockey game.
		He fought first the hockey players, then the Flash, and discovered that he was (appropriately) trapped in the tar form.
		Tar Pit’s original body remains incarcerated, comatose, in Iron Heights.
	www.hyperborea.org /flash/tarpit.html (252 words)

	The Microsoft Search Tar Pit - PC Magazine Discussions
		The Microsoft Search Tar Pit Posted: 05-08-2006, 3:15 PM I got into a huge argument with West Coast Editor Sebastian Rupley on the most recent weekly CrankyGeeks videocast/podcast last Thursday, when he asserted that Web search was in some way a good business for Microsoft.
		Re: The Microsoft Search Tar Pit Posted: 05-08-2006, 11:11 PM Google is gona stomp on M$ if they start playing in their back yard.
		Re: The Microsoft Search Tar Pit Posted: 05-09-2006, 9:29 AM The persistent behavior detailed here seems to be a pattern that Microsoft cyclically falls into, goaded by market demands, market forces or by its own pride.
	discuss.pcmag.com /forums/1004318861/ShowPost.aspx (1556 words)

	La Brea Tar Pits Photo Tour
		pit with fossil bones embedded in rock, close up same rock, in bldg northwest end of park
		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.
	www.rth.org /tarpits (616 words)

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