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 Sir Charles Lyell
These may have been the ejectamenta of a whirlwind.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
These are evidently the loose volcanic ejectamenta which accompanied former eruptions of lava, and have been arranged by the action of water.
From Geology by James Geikie
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 James Geikie
