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

Though damaged by the falling scoria, it was once more green; but the grave in which the gold and pearls lay was covered three feet deep in lava and small stones.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon

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 Doolittle, William Henry

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