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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-04579

The dark-colored Santa Clara lava flow cutting diagonally across the photo to the left poured over cliffs of the Navajo Sandstone in lava cascades up to 120 m high.  Several lava cascades occurred around sandstone islands in Snow Canyon State Park.  The colorful Navajo cliffs display a transition between underlying reddish oxidized and overlying whitish unoxidized rocks. Photo by Lee Siebert, 1996 (Smithsonian Institution).

The dark-colored Santa Clara lava flow cutting diagonally across the photo to the left poured over cliffs of the Navajo Sandstone in lava cascades up to 120 m high. Several lava cascades occurred around sandstone islands in Snow Canyon State Park. The colorful Navajo cliffs display a transition between underlying reddish oxidized and overlying whitish unoxidized rocks.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1996 (Smithsonian Institution).

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