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

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

Rolling hills surrounded the little pocket on all sides, and here and there a red scoria butte thrust its ugly height out of the plain.

From The Free Range by Duer, Douglas

The lime was added as a flux, and acted to unite with itself the sand, clay and other impurities to form a slag or scoria.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry