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

Here, though, he had a check, by the clothes of the infant catching in the rough scoria, when—foxlike—he backed out, turned, and then began to back in.

From A Double Knot by Fenn, George Manville

Geology": "A volcano is an opening in the earth from whence matter has been ejected by heat, in the form of lava, scoria, or ashes.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)