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

Some things stood out sharply like the spaceship-sized lump of burning scoria that had plunged into a lake near them, showering the line with hot drops of water.

From Deathworld by Dongen, H. R. van

Just as a fringe of scoria and lava encircles the mouth of a burning mountain.

From A Girl's Ride in Iceland by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)

Rabbits burrow in the heaps of scoria on the slopes of the mountains.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various