scoria

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Scoria and lava of recent age; T. Tertiary strata forming the foundation to the volcanic rocks.

From Volcanoes: Past and Present by Hull, Edward

I sought for an old friend of mine in Rome," said Don Silverio, endeavouring to gain his attention and divert his thought, "one Pamfilio Scoria.

From The Waters of Edera by Ouida

There they would steal other horses from the Grosventres Indians, and drive them to their cache in the Scoria Hills whence they could emerge with them at their good pleasure and sell them at Pierre.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hagedorn, Hermann

Scoria was falling, and destroying all the shrubs and flowers in the beautiful valley.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon

The Spaniards traversed the country of a cacique, Scoria, and arrived at the residence of another called Pariza.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus