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 lime was added as a flux, and acted to unite with itself the sand, clay and other impurities to form a slag or scoria.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
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 Guy Boothby
Just as a fringe of scoria and lava encircles the mouth of a burning mountain.
From A Girl's Ride in Iceland by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi?
From Time Magazine Archive
His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first of these shows no sign of either lavas or scoriae, but volcanic rocks occur on the margins of the other two.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
But now the clear flow of pure metal into the moulds was secured, while the scoriae were mechanically held back.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
Unlike some of its companions, however, it owes its bulk less to lava flows than to the explosive eruptions which threw forth bombs and scoriae.
From The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' by John H. (John Harvey) Williams
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