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
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 Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Burning cinders and scoria lit up the eastern horizon like a fountain of fire.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
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 Hermann Hagedorn
His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust.
From Time Magazine Archive
How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi?
From Time Magazine Archive
With great difficulty, he thrust it home on the far side into a honey-combed mass of crumbling scoriae lava.
From The White Man's Foot by Grant Allen
We must, however, distinguish here between the scoriae accidentally formed, and those which have been designedly produced by chemists.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
It has been found profitable to resmelt the scoriae of the ancient workings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
