La Brea Tar Pits and the Genesis Flood

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Near Los Angeles (translation: the angels) was an area known as Rancho La Brea (la brea translation: the pitch, or, the tar), and a part of that became Hancock Park. Savvy readers know that it is the location of the famous La Brea Tar Pits. Much research has been done regarding this natural asphalt.

The story goes that animals would get trapped by the tar and cry out in distress, attracting predators who would also get trapped. That tale is popular but the reality is quite different. Indeed, there are reasons to doubt current speculations.

The popular story of the La Brea Tar Pits and trapped animals is not true. Creationists have a better explanation than secular scientists.
Mastodon display at La Brea Tar Pits, Flickr / Ingrid Richter (CC BY 2.0), modified at PhotoFunia
Study on it a spell. Thousands of fossils recovered from La Brea, many of large plant eaters and carnivores. If those were trapped and pulled down, wouldn't the bones be together? In fact, most skeletons are disarticulated (spread out).

Biblical creationists agree with secular scientists that the area shows massive flooding, but creationists go further and say that the cause was the Genesis Flood. The Flood was responsible for the Ice Age, at the end of which was massive flooding and transportation of dead animals, and many were caught there.
The La Brea Tar Pits have fascinated visitors ever since Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá chronicled the site in 1769. But even before that, humans had likely used the “tar” for several thousand years. Using land donated to the County of Los Angeles by George Allan Hancock in 1924, Hancock Park has produced over one million mammal fossils and one human skeleton from the tar pits near downtown Los Angeles.

The oil for the tar comes from the Salt Lake oil field, about 1,000 feet below the park.1 Since oil is more buoyant than groundwater, it rises to the surface along fractures and faults near the crest of the oil field and then degrades over time. Bacterial action and surface evaporation remove the lightest components to leave a thick, sticky tar behind.

Stick with it and read the rest at "La Brea Tar Pits at Hancock Park: Post-Flood Catastrophes."