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

Rabbits burrow in the heaps of scoria on the slopes of the mountains.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

That which is ejected from the chimney is called scoria as with other metals.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

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