Rancho La Brea: Treasures of the Tar Pits
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Fossils from the asphalt provide a detailed picture of life in North America during the closing phases of the last great Ice Age and are now impressively displayed at the George C. Page Museum of... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:093864419X
ISBN13:9780938644194
Release Date:January 1985
Publisher:Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Length:87 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
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Published by walter Ko , 2 years ago
Fossils from the asphalt provide a detailed picture of life in North America during the closing phases of the last great Ice Age and are now impressively displayed at the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries. This book is a collection of documentary and discovery on the visit tour from the hustle and bustle of metro Los Angeles to the last Ice Age! Visitors see the icon in the pit lake still bubbling with trapped Mammoth models. History still in the making.
The Museum collected since last century over three million fossils catalogued into animals, plants for historic climate change in extinction and evolution. Long before palm trees in the streets of LA, there was the Garden of Eden and now scientists recreated the same based on the research fossil plants and seeds for a Pleistocene visit.
The Project 23 and Pit 91 are still active in digging and researching on this unique site. The ten thousand young woman skeleton was impressive in understand human activity with speculation of Chumash Tribe.
This book keeps history alive for visit.
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