ejectamenta
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It’s possible I am the only reader whose heart will sing at Miller’s fondness for synthetic ejectamenta, but I would happily have read more.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2014
The interstratification of loam and volcanic ejectamenta was probably occasioned by the fluviatile mud having gradually enveloped the cones of loose scoriae after they were completely formed.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
They are all embedded in a light porous tuff, resembling in colour and mineral composition the ejectamenta of several of the latest eruptions of Denise.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
In the British Islands, and many other non-volcanic regions, we find besides crystalline igneous rocks, abundant traces of loose ejectamenta, which clearly prove the former presence of volcanoes.
From Geology by Geikie, James
These are evidently the loose volcanic ejectamenta which accompanied former eruptions of lava, and have been arranged by the action of water.
From Geology by Geikie, James
