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 Boothby, Guy

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

As no rock or gravel was available for macadamizing, scoria or volcanic cinder was used, of which material there is an inexhaustible supply along the right-of-way.

From Third Biennial Report of the Oregon State Highway Commission Covering the Period December 1st, 1916 to November 30th, 1918 by Benson, S.