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Image GVP-05503

This unnamed cinder cone in the Sage Valley SE of Cedar Breaks National Monument was the source of one of the youngest lava flows in the Markagunt Plateau volcanic field in SW Utah. Extensive blocky lava flows cover broad areas near Navajo and Panguitch lakes. Photo by Lee Siebert, 1996 (Smithsonian Institution).

This unnamed cinder cone in the Sage Valley SE of Cedar Breaks National Monument was the source of one of the youngest lava flows in the Markagunt Plateau volcanic field in SW Utah. Extensive blocky lava flows cover broad areas near Navajo and Panguitch lakes.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1996 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Markagunt Plateau

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Image GVP-05503