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 non-metallic particles being brought to a state of fusion by the constant action of four pair of hand-worked bellows, the iron with the scoria sinks to the bottom.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

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

Just as a fringe of scoria and lava encircles the mouth of a burning mountain.

From A Girl's Ride in Iceland by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)