scoria

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The type of volcanic rock with common vesicles is called scoria.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Lank shadows and stocky, the fluttering shadows of dresses, the ridiculous elongated shadows of trousered legs, darted and danced last week all over the reddish scoria of the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

The shower of ashes and scoria quickly covered him, and nineteen hundred years later the workmen, excavating the ruins, discovered his body at the base of yonder wall.

From Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance by Boothby, Guy

All that fearful day and all the following night scoria and ashes continued to fall, the thunder never ceased, and the lightning was still incessant.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon

Though damaged by the falling scoria, it was once more green; but the grave in which the gold and pearls lay was covered three feet deep in lava and small stones.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon