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

We passed through a lane of black scoria, with steep banks on both sides.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Westward, not a quarter of a mile from the house, behind a hedge of cottonwoods, the river swung in a long circle at the foot of steep buttes crested with scoria.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann