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La Brea Tar Pits (archaeological site) |
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Lat: 34 03 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 34.0500 decimal degrees |
Long: 118 21 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -118.3500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Site of one of best preserved assemblages of fossils of Pleistocene vertebrates dating 40,000 to 8,000 before present, including extinct sabre-toothed cats, wolves, mammoths, mastodons, bison, horses, camels, sloths, carnivorous birds, & a human female (dating to ca. 9,000 before present). |
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La Brea Tar Pits (preferred,C,V)
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La Brea Fossil Pits (C,V)
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La Brea (C,V)
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Salt Creek Oilfields (H,V)
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............ | name used in 1910, when site was 7 miles W of Los Angeles |
Rancho La Brea (H,V)
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............ | name of Mexican land grant on this site |
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archaeological site (preferred, C) |
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oil field site (H) |
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mine (H) |
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was natural source of tar & asphalt for thousands of years |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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Salt Creek Oilfields.......... |
[VP] |
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Pleistocene (1998) accessed 04/12/99 |
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