scoria
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The type of volcanic rock with common vesicles is called scoria.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Lank shadows and stocky, the fluttering shadows of dresses, the ridiculous elongated shadows of trousered legs, darted and danced last week all over the reddish scoria of the Roland Garros Stadium courts near Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
The six sat in the shade of a huge bowlder that had broken off and rolled down the side of the red scoria butte.
From The Free Range by Duer, Douglas
We are terribly hot with our climb, but the air here is splendidly invigorating, and we turn to finish our last hit of a few hundred feet over loose lava, pumice, and scoria.
From Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy by Overend, William Heysham
Large quantities of iron scoria, scattered over the fields near the village, are generally allowed to indicate that a Roman bloomery was established near the spot.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by Barber, J. T.
How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi?
From Time Magazine Archive
His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our decks were covered with dust and scoriae, and this fell steadily all that day.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Stables, Gordon
They are at a depth of about 12 ft., in slaty shale containing Llandeilo fossils and contemporaneous felspathic ash and scoriae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
Its entrails are strewn about; nearly the entire surface of the ground is covered with cinder-heaps and mounds of scoriae.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel
