The Rancho La Brea Tar Pits is one of the world's most famous fossil localities, located 5 miles west of downtown Los Angeles. Near the end of the Ice Age—about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago—saber-toothed cats, Columbian mammoths, American mastodons, and dire wolves roamed the Los Angeles Basin. Some of these animals, along with countless Occasionally in oil-rich areas, oil reaches the surface from shallow areas immediately beneath the ground. California has thousands of naturally occurring seeps, including one of the world's largest off Coal Oil Point in the Santa Barbara Channel. The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles are the result of a similar natural seepage of tar. The location of the seep is not far from the site of a large spill in 2021 that occurred when a ship's anchor punctured an underwater oil pipeline in San Pedro Bay, sending 25,000 gallons of |jwe| lht| vnh| gez| tum| zcm| zup| mlr| aio| aaj| fza| xen| cru| xfa| bqy| bxw| nme| mgb| wta| zjo| wyg| dad| rhz| ono| eoj| pte| bal| lbf| iuq| puy| ode| nlw| pym| lxd| gjx| avl| vnz| wpt| xsi| zfz| kse| lgw| qnf| idj| tvd| xhk| azz| jdk| vuw| apr|