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pumice

[puhm-is] / ˈpʌm ɪs /




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The project had stalled around 2021 when a lawsuit argued that the road through the lake’s Pumice Plain could damage research in the monument.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2024

Pumice is an extremely light rock made when super-hot, liquid rock is thrown out of a volcano.

From NewsForKids.net • Jan. 18, 2024

Pumice Plain is home to 992 research plots, investigating how birds, amphibians, insects, and plants recolonized the shattered landscape.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 21, 2021

Fig + Yarrow's Alpine Pumice is an exfoliant and a balm that may ease your fears about peep-toe stilettos -- or flip-flops. $16-$28.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2017

These flows did not reach as far away from the mountain as the earlier lateral blast, which had already killed almost everything living in the area of Pumice Plain.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone




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