pumice
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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
The best option, Veach announced, is to build a 5.5-kilometer-long temporary road from an existing road across the blast zone, known as the Pumice Plain, to Spirit Lake.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 21, 2021
“Right now, when you go hiking out in the Pumice Plain as well as many other areas in the monument, you’re experiencing being in a wilderness,” he said.
From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2021
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
Vocabulary lists containing pumice
Earth Science - Middle School
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Earth Science - High School
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Rocks and Minerals - Middle School and High School
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