Scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast
Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 12:00
in Earth & Climate
They paved paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized asphalt domes unlike any other underwater features known to exist.