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
Large quantities of iron scoria, scattered over the fields near the village, are generally allowed to indicate that a Roman bloomery was established near the spot.
From A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire by J. T. Barber
The shower of ashes and scoria quickly covered him, and nineteen hundred years later the workmen, excavating the ruins, discovered his body at the base of yonder wall.
From Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance by Guy Boothby
Instead of, as in the case of fire volcanoes, the ejected matters being smoke, flame, lava, scoria, pumice stone, and scalding mud.
From A Girl's Ride in Iceland by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust.
From Time Magazine Archive
How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi?
From Time Magazine Archive
"But, if I may joodge from zee stones ant scoriae around," said the professor, "zee volcano is not alvays so peaceful as it is joost now."
From Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Volcanic scoriae and lava streams are therefore portions of Pyriphlegethon itself, portions of the subterranean molten and ever-undulating mass.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
After the scoriae have been skimmed off, the upper and purer portion of the mass is refined, and the lower part re-melted.
From The Mines and its Wonders by William Henry Giles Kingston
