Known Tar Pits
There are only a few known asphalt lakes worldwide:
- Tierra de Brea at La Brea, Trinidad and Tobago
- Lake Bermudez at Libertador, Estado Sucre, Venezuela
- La Brea Tar Pits Los Angeles, California, US
- McKittrick Tar Pits at McKittrick near Bakersfield, California, US
- Carpinteria Tar Pits at Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, California, US
- Tar pits in Hit, Iraq
There are other fossil-bearing asphalt deposits in Oklahoma, Texas, Peru, Trinidad, Iran, Russia and Poland.
For other rich deposits, fossilized where they occurred, see Lagerstätten. Tar pits are the resting places of many fossils.
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