La Brea Tar Pits

When most of us think of asphalt or tar, our minds wonder to the roads that our cars drive on. Asphalt may appear to be an ordinary everyday thing we see and pay little to no attention to but, in reality, it may hold a treasure of information on Earth’s past history. In Hancock Park, Los Angeles, CA it does just that. The La Brea Tar Pits were formed during the Pleistocene era over 40,000 years ago and have supplied most of the fossils found during that era in the world (Polly, 1994). Many well-known

La Brea Tar Pits Introduction The La Brea tar pits have been well-known for over a century. Before the rise of European settlers, local Indian tribes used the tar to caulk canoes and waterproof tents. As the Industrial Revolution took off the early 1900s, the tar pits attracted oil men, as asphaltum is often associated with petroleum. Then, [w]hen W. W. Orcutt, the original organizer of the geological department of Union Oil of California, reexamined the area in 1901, he discovered "a vast

we had found an integrated tar pit left over by history. Do you know what the purpose of tar pit is? In the United States, most of asphalt was transported from Los Angeles and asphalts were used for road construction. As asphalt and gasoline are the subsidiary products of petroleum, the economic development in Los Angeles has boomed since 1900s and became the biggest base of petrochemical industry. Are you interested in history of asphalts in Los Angeles? La Brea Tar

The Pleistocene epoch was a time period of almost 2 million years of repeating glaciation around the globe. This epoch was known for its megafauna that roamed the Earth during the last great ice age. Although this was a time of mass extinction for species that could not adapt to the climate changes, many mammals and vertebrates that can be identified today were found during this time (Zimmermann, 2013). The Pleistocene epoch is an important foundation for understanding life that exists today, including

Ever since I was a little girl I hoped someday I would be able to go back in time.Well now I’m fourteen and was told to stop believing in silly things like that.One day after school I found a locket there was a tiny button inside.Before I took it home I made shure it didn’t belong to anyone around the park.With no luck I headed home and when I got to my room I pressed the button to see what it did and in a flash I was falling out of the sky!. I wasn’t as high as a plane but it was still pretty high

Saber-Toothed Cat: Smilodon The Saber-Toothed Cat was a very common animal during the time of the Ice-Age and with the end of it also the time of the Saber-Toothed Cat ended. Most known for their long canines, scientists assume that the Saber-Toothed Cat was an effective hunter, even if the long saber-like teeth were very fragile (function is still not clear). However, what were those cats in reality: Organized hunters and social animals or scavengers? The family of Saber-Toothed Cats includes

Asphalt is the most popular paving material in North America. Asphalt pavement is economical to install and maintain, durable and attractive, and it is also a very safe pavement in any weather. However, if you do not have cracks repaired soon after they appear, you could be putting your pavement at risk, which means that you could end up having to have your asphalt pavement replaced long before you should. Timely Repairs Are Vital Asphalt pavement has two enemies that can frequently lead to premature

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My trip to the La Brea Tar Pits, taught me of the biodiversity that was within California, from the Columbian Mammoths, Shasta Ground Sloth, Dire Wolves, and Sabretooth Cats. The museum emphasized that most of the extinct animals that were on display were extinct due to climate change or hunted by the earliest tribes throughout California and North America. The museum points out that most of these animals were large, but doesn’t show the reason as to why the larger animals went extinct, but the

fossils according to La Brea Tar Pits museum, that dire wolves, saber-toothed cat from Pit 91 each dated back to 44,000 years old. An coyote from Pit A is dated 46,000 years these dates estimated based on carbon-14 remains of specimens [Tarpits.org]. The whole museum ( and Los Angeles) was a crucial discovery point, the underground reveals hundreds of thousands of fossils perfectly in an protective shell from the Ice Age. In the 19th century a lake was mined at Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles the museum