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 shower of ashes and scoria quickly covered him, and nineteen hundred years later the workmen, excavating the ruins, discovered his body at the base of yonder wall.
From Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance by Guy Boothby
The non-metallic particles being brought to a state of fusion by the constant action of four pair of hand-worked bellows, the iron with the scoria sinks to the bottom.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
The whole island is of volcanic formation, and its rocks are of black scoria.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust.
From Time Magazine Archive
How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi?
From Time Magazine Archive
Neokaimeni, the last-formed island, is a great heap of obsidian and scoriae.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
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
"But, if I may joodge from zee stones ant scoriae around," said the professor, "zee volcano is not alvays so peaceful as it is joost now."
From Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
