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
It was awkward travelling, the black sand having given place to loose pieces of scoria and obsidian, some pieces of which crackled under their boots, and took revenge by entering into the soles.
From Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy by William Heysham Overend
Instead of, as in the case of fire volcanoes, the ejected matters being smoke, flame, lava, scoria, pumice stone, and scalding mud.
From A Girl's Ride in Iceland by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
The whole island is of volcanic formation, and its rocks are of black scoria.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi?
From Time Magazine Archive
His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust.
From Time Magazine Archive
The column of cinders, of scoriae, of broken rocks and earth, had wholly ceased to ascend.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Its entrails are strewn about; nearly the entire surface of the ground is covered with cinder-heaps and mounds of scoriae.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
They are at a depth of about 12 ft., in slaty shale containing Llandeilo fossils and contemporaneous felspathic ash and scoriae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
