See Also: La Brea Tar Pits(encyclopedia)
Brea Community Hospital(health)
lip pits(medicine)
otic pits(medicine)
olfactory pits(medicine)
nasal pits(medicine)
nail pits(medicine)
lens pits(medicine)
iris pits(medicine)
granular pits(medicine)

La Brea Tar Pits (sh)




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 Portola'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.