Overview map, Kern County in southern CaliforniaThe McKittrick Oil Field area. Other oil fields in light gray.Fossil horse skull found in the McKittrick Tar Pits by Charles H. Sternberg, around 1926.Tar seep north of Highway 58
The McKittrick Tar Pits (also McKittrick Oil Seeps and McKittrick Brea Pits) are a series of natural asphalt lakes situated in the western part of Kern County in southern California. The pits are the most extensive asphalt lakes in the state.[1]
The McKittrick Tar Pits are one of the five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, the others being Tierra de Brea in Trinidad and Tobago, Lake Guanoco in Venezuela and the La Brea Tar Pits (Los Angeles) and Carpinteria Tar Pits (Carpinteria) both also located in the US state of California.[2]
^"Buena Vista Museum Of Natural History – McKittrick Tar Seeps". Retrieved 2012-03-19.
^"Pitch (Asphalt) Lakes of Trinidad, Venezuela, and California". Retrieved 2012-03-19.
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