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

Burning cinders and scoria lit up the eastern horizon like a fountain of fire.

From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Balch, Frederic Homer

Indeed, it was a glen no longer, but filled entirely up with fallen rocks, lava, and scoria.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon

The disgruntled cattle-owners, under a guard of ten men, were resting quietly far from anything resembling excitement in one of the untracked places among the mesas and scoria buttes.

From The Free Range by Duer, Douglas