McKittrick and Maricopa Tar Seeps in Kern County, California
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2021
- The McKittrick and Maricopa tar seeps have been used as an important natural resource historically by the Yokuts and other indigenous peoples. Today, the fossils preserved in the seeps can provide us with a glimpse of what life was like in Kern County during the last ice age.
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Myself and two other geology students from Chaffey College in Cucamonga visited the McKittrick Tar Seep in 1971 and collected fossil beetles.
Thank you for the great history. I was born in 1957 in Sanger, Ca and raised in the San Joaquin Valley as were my parents (born in Sanger/Reedley) with family in Porterville which is north and near Bakersfield. I worked in the petroleum industry and spent time in this area in cited this documentary. We did see small seeps dispersed in the hills in the Kern area. Thanks for this great history.
Thank you for this update on our work on the Maricopa tar seep. Having lived in the San Joaquin Valley for 13 years, most recently in until 1967, I probably gained a tolerance to Valley Fever. My Ogan family settled in Carpinteria in 1869.
In 1976 I worked on the La Jolla Man site near San Diego with George Carter. In 1976 the age for humans entering North America was estimated at 5000 to 9000 years bp. As I recall then the Maricopa site was estimated to be about 30,000 years bp. So a date for Maricopa at around 12,000 years bp makes this site contemporary with early Native Americans.
You made no mention of the tar seeps near me at Petrolia, CA, in this treatise. I guess this is because Petrolia is in Baja Oregon, which is not part of California, but within a southern extension of Oregon flora and fauna. Here where I now live in Eureka, California, anything south of Ukiah, California, is considered Southern California, by locals. Just like in Southern California, they consider anything north of Santa Barbara as northern California. Having been born (1947) in Needles, CA, and having lived in Redlands, San Bernardino, Azusa, Woodland Hills, Carpinteria, Frazier Park, Sanger, Kingsburg, Monterey, Taft, South Lake Tahoe, Quincy, Eureka, Arcata, and McKinleyville, California, and having worked all over this state in the past 55 years and having birded in all 58 counties, I feel I have a good understanding of this great state. There is a Central California that extends from San Luis Obispo->Bakersfield-> Death Valley and north to Ft Bragg->Ukiah-> Yuba City -> Truckee and northern California is north of that.
Chet Ogan,
5th generation Californian
Are the Petrolia seeps paloentologically rich?
What is this FAKE pit? is it a land grab, child trafficking or both?
Thanks Tim. Keep em coming. Don't think I'd seen this one before.
Oil still seeps to this day. Infact at McKittrick. On hwy 58 west it still comes up through the road.
How unfortunately that this video doesn't have more views. If kids would watch educational videos instead of watching others play video games, perhaps they would appreciate more our land.
Before it was called McKittrick it was called Asphalto. By the Indians, that would make balls from the tar to cook with.
#1 cause would be human predation. Obviously.
In 1967 I assisted Jim Farrell and a gal named Danielle with excavation at the Maricopa site, I recognize your excavation hole photo. Because Valley Fever spores were present in the excavated material which we wrapped in burlap then put plaster around to make it more easy to transport back to LA Co Museum of Natural History, the samples were fumigated before being picked apart. 1968 to 1969 represents when the samples that we bagged were opened and studies were done. My work was volunteer but my friend Jim and Danielle were paid to excavate the material.
Chet Ogan
Eureka, CA
oganc@sbcglobal.net
I need to correct our excavation- it was summer of 1968.