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

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

We passed through a lane of black scoria, with steep banks on both sides.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

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