ejectamenta
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It’s possible I am the only reader whose heart will sing at Miller’s fondness for synthetic ejectamenta, but I would happily have read more.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2014
They are all embedded in a light porous tuff, resembling in colour and mineral composition the ejectamenta of several of the latest eruptions of Denise.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
In the British Islands, and many other non-volcanic regions, we find besides crystalline igneous rocks, abundant traces of loose ejectamenta, which clearly prove the former presence of volcanoes.
From Geology by Geikie, James
The terms applied to the varieties of ejectamenta found among modern volcanic accumulations, will be given and explained when we come to consider the nature of geological agencies.
From Geology by Geikie, James
These may have been the ejectamenta of a whirlwind.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
