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La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
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La Brea Tar Pits (ou Rancho La Brea Tar Pits) est un gisement de fossiles du Pléistocène supérieur, situé dans Hancock Park (en), au 5801 Wilshire Boulevard, sur le Miracle Mile, au cœur de Los Angeles. Il occupe la même parcelle que le musée d'Art du comté de Los Angeles.
La Brea Tar Pits History. Located in the heart of L.A., La Brea Tar Pits are one of the world’s most famous fossil localities, where more than 100 excavations have been made! It’s a fascinating piece of land. Over time, this area has been ancient forest and savannah, ranch land and oilfield, Mexican land grant, and Los Angeles County Park.
Tar pit at Tierra La Brea, Trinidad. An anticlinal trap is feeding the tar pit on the surface through the vertical fracture in the strata (indicated by the red arrow). Once the crude oil reaches the surface, evaporation takes place and lighter hydrocarbons are vaporized, leaving behind sticky asphalt.
The La Brea Tar Pits is one of the most unique museums in the world! No other city in the world has such a huge treasure trove of fossils right under its city streets. The museum offers a glimpse of what the land that is now Los Angeles looked like thousands of years ago.
1 Ιαν 2012 · The La Brea Tar Pits, in a 23-acre park in the heart of Los Angeles and just minutes from Beverly Hills, is the only active urban paleontological excavation site in the United States.
A sculpted mammoth shows visitors to the La Brea Tar Pits what these ancient animals might have looked like, but the pits themselves have looked the same for thousands of years. How did they form, and what discoveries lie beneath the sticky surface?
