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

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 may have been the ejectamenta of a whirlwind.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

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

The terms applied to the varieties of ejectamenta found among modern volcanic accumulations, will be given and explained when we come to consider the nature of geological agencies.

From Geology by Geikie, James