The Santa Clara lava flow fills the valley of Snow Canyon, cut in colorful rocks of the Navajo Sandstone. The young flow, covered only by scrubby vegetation, split into several lobes and flowed around several peninsulas and islands of the reddish Navajo Sandstone that protrude through the black basalt. The flow traveled through the narrow gap at the upper left and reached nearly to the Santa Clara River, 16 km from the source of the flow.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1996 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Santa Clara