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Diamond Valley Cinder Cone. Coordinates: 37.2430°N 113.6285°W. 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.
1050 or before [3] Markagunt Plateau is a volcanic field in southern Utah, United States. Formed in a region of older volcanics, it consists of several cinder cones and associated lava flows. Some of the lava flows feature lava tubes such as Mammoth Cave, while others have formed lava dams and lakes like Navajo Lake.
Hike. 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.
Mountain type. Cinder cone. Last eruption. Unknown. 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]
The Cinders are part of the Black Rock Desert volcanic field. The lava of The Cinders is basalt of late Holocene age. The basalt erupted from the vent at the Ice Springs craters less than 700 years ago (as of 2020). [ 2] It is the youngest basalt flow in Utah. To the south is a somewhat older lava flow surrounding Tabernacle Hill .
Basaltic magma followed fault lines to the surface and erupted as cinder cones and lava flows. Some volcanic rocks were re-worked by hydrothermal systems to form colorful rocks and concentrated mineral formations, such as boron-rich minerals like borax; [22] a Pliocene-aged example is the 4,000-foot (1,200 m)-thick Artist Drive Formation. [27]
Utah State Parks. Snow Canyon State Park is a state park in Utah, located in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve. [1] The park features a canyon carved from the red and white Navajo sandstone of the Red Mountains, as well as the extinct Santa Clara Volcano, lava tubes, lava flows, and sand dunes. Snow Canyon is located near the cities of Ivins and St ...