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The Diamond Valley Cinder Cone is an extinct cinder cone in Washington County, Utah, and is one of two cinder cones in Washington County. [1] The cinder cone is the youngest volcano in Washington County. It's located between Diamond Valley and Snow Canyon State Park. The Cinder Cone Trailhead is a trail that leads up to the crater, and it is ...
The first stage saw activity mainly at the margins of the Markagunt Plateau between 5.3 and 2.8 million years ago; the cinder cones and lava flows produced during this stage are heavily eroded. The second stage occurred along the Sevier fault and in the southern part of the field between 800,000 and 500,000 years ago; its cones and lava flows ...
Santa Clara Volcano is a volcanic field and lava flow in the Diamond Valley in Washington County, Utah, United States. The most prominent features are two cinder cones that rise above Snow Canyon State Park. The southern cinder cone and most of the north cinder cone is within the boundaries of Snow Canyon State Park.
Lava Butte, a cinder cone in Newberry National Volcanic Monument, Oregon. ... Veyo Volcano in Veyo, Utah [1] Roden Crater, Arizona; S P Crater, Arizona;
Bald Knoll is the youngest of a group of cinder cones on the SW part of the Paunsaugunt Plateau in southern Utah. The Paunsaugunt Plateau (pronounced "PAWN-suh-gant") is a dissected plateau, rising to an elevation of 7,000–9,300 feet (2,100–2,800 m), in southwestern Utah in the United States.
Many volcanic cinder cones can still be seen in the foothills of the Pine Valley Mountains and these have been dated at around 20,000 years old. [8] As a result of these lava flows, the valley for which the mountain range is named and in which the town of Pine Valley is situated, was formed when lava dammed off the Santa Clara River and formed ...
Bald Knoll, also called Black Knoll, Buck Knoll or Corral Knoll, [3] is a cinder cone in Utah, in the Southwestern United States.. It is the youngest volcano at the southwest portion of the Paunsaugunt Plateau and it consists of basaltic lava with a well-preserved volcanic crater at its summit.
About 100,000 years ago, basalt from the largest cinder cone in the park, Crater Hill, flowed over the area. [23] The lava traveled into Coalpits and Scoggins Washes to the south and accumulated to a depth of over 400 ft (122 m) in the ancestral Virgin River valley near the present-day ghost town of Grafton, Utah. [24]