La Brea Tar Pits Virtual Cache
Hidden : 7/11/2018
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LA BREA TAR PITS

The La Brea Tar Pits are a group of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed in urban Los Angeles. The George C. Page Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and displaying specimens from the animals that died there. Th La Brea Tar Pits are a registered National Natural Landmark.
Natural asphalt has seeped up from the ground in this area for tens of thousands of years. Now extinct prehistoric animals roamed this area and called it home. From time to time, the asphalt would form a deposit thick enough to trap animals, and the surface would be covered with layers of water, dust, or leaves. Animals would wander in, become trapped, and eventually die. Predators would enter to eat the trapped animals and also become stuck. As the bones of dead animals sink into the asphalt, it soaks into them, turning them a dark-brown color.
Dramatic fossils of large mammals have been extricated from the tar, but the asphalt also preserves microfossils. Examples of some of these are on display in the George C. Page Museum.
Among the prehistoric species associated with the La Brea Tar Pits are Pleistocene mammoths, dire wolves, short-faced bears, ground sloths, and the state fossil of California, the saber-toothed cat.
Only one human has been found, a partial skeleton of the La Brea Woman, dated to approximately 10,000 calendar years, who was 17 to 25 years old at death and found associated with remains of a domestic dog, and so was interpreted to have been ceremonially interred.
The tar pits visible today are actually from human excavation. The lake pit was originally as asphalt mine. The other pits visible today were produced between 1913 and 1915, when over 100 pits were excavated in search of large mammal bones.

THE LA BREA TAR PITS ARE OPEN DAILY FROM 9:30AM TO 5:00PM. THE GROUNDS ARE FREE TO EXPLORE, BUT THE GEORGE C. PAGE MUSEUM CHARGES ADMISSION.

Logging Requirements:

1) Send the answer to the following question: On the large information display at Ground Zero, what was the license plate number of
the vehicle that carried the large Columbian Mammoth sculpture through the streets of Los Angeles to its current resting place at
the La Brea Tar Pits lake?
OR
2) Take a picture with any large Pleistocene animal sculptures on the grounds of the La Brea Tar Pits, or any display inside the George C. Page
Museum. You must include yourself, your phone, or your GPS in the photo .
OR
3) After hours, you may submit a photo of the Columbian Mammoth trio in the the La Brea Tar Pit lake from the sidewalk adjacent to
Wilshire Blvd. Again, include yourself, your phone, or your GPS in the photo.

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