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
On one side of it is the gaol, a group of buildings surrounded by a wall and palisades, and situated in a scoria quarry.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
All that fearful day and all the following night scoria and ashes continued to fall, the thunder never ceased, and the lightning was still incessant.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
Basalt and scoria are the chief erupted materials.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
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
"But, if I may joodge from zee stones ant scoriae around," said the professor, "zee volcano is not alvays so peaceful as it is joost now."
From Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
But now the clear flow of pure metal into the moulds was secured, while the scoriae were mechanically held back.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
Above the wooded zone Ætna is covered with miniature cones thrown up by different eruptions and regions of dreary plateau covered with scoriae and ashes and buried under snow a part of the year.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
