la brea tar pits

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Fossil field in Hancock Park (formerly Rancho La Brea), Los Angeles, Calif. , U.S. It is the site of "pitch springs" oozing crude oil, discovered by Gaspar de Portolá's expedition in 1769. The tar pits contain the fossilized bones of Pleistocene mammals that became entrapped there; they include mammoths, mastodons, and sabre-toothed cats. The George C. Page Museum contains more than one million prehistoric specimens exhumed from the pits
la brea tar pits

    Hyphenation

    la Bre·a tar pits

    Turkish pronunciation

    lä bri tär pîts

    Pronunciation

    /ˈlä ˈbrē ˈtär ˈpəts/ /ˈlɑː ˈbriː ˈtɑːr ˈpɪts/
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