Usually means: Natural trap preserving ancient organisms.
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  1. tar pit: Merriam-Webster
  2. tar pit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tar pit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tar pit: Vocabulary.com
  5. tar pit: Wiktionary
  6. tar pit: Dictionary.com
  7. Tar Pit (comics), Tar pit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. tar pit: Rhymezone
  9. tar pit: FreeDictionary.org
  10. tar pit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. tar pit: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tar pit: Encyclopedia

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  1. tar pit: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Tar pit)

noun:  Alternative form of tarpit [A lake of asphalt formed when subterranean bitumen leaks to the ground surface. Such pits are important in forming fossil fuel reserves; they are also apt to trap passing animals, which become fossilized in the tar.]

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