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

Geology": "A volcano is an opening in the earth from whence matter has been ejected by heat, in the form of lava, scoria, or ashes.

From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)

The former describes many substances under the terms scoria, molybdaena, scoria argyros and lithargyros, which are all varieties of litharge.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius