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

Just as a fringe of scoria and lava encircles the mouth of a burning mountain.

From A Girl's Ride in Iceland by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)

As yet the coarse scoria evolved from darkness, which makes it so difficult for the adult to embrace the mysteries of the spirit like a little child, had not formed around her.

From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Montessori, Maria

Rolling hills surrounded the little pocket on all sides, and here and there a red scoria butte thrust its ugly height out of the plain.

From The Free Range by Duer, Douglas