la brea tar pits

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Definition of la brea tar pits in English English dictionary

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

Hyphenation

la Bre·a tar pits

Turkish pronunciation

lä bri tär pîts

Pronunciation

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