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 six sat in the shade of a huge bowlder that had broken off and rolled down the side of the red scoria butte.

From The Free Range by Duer, Douglas

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

The apparent scoria here is simply a reproduction of the iron of the underlying flagstones, transferred, through the agency of water, to that stratum of vegetable mould and boulder-clay which represents the recent period.

From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Symonds, W. S. (William Samuel)