There are tracts of these which are in part or wholly of volcanic origin; then the hills are called scoria buttes. From Wordnik.com. [V. The Black-Tail Deer] Reference
But I was on a bladed road which the gas companies have recently covered with what they call "scoria". From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
No, what the gas companies call "scoria" is basically crushed rock that is not crushed as fine as gravel. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Dagli altoforni del nostro silenzio qualche scoria è volata. From Wordnik.com. [Arnold de Vos] Reference
They were buried beneath at least 2 meters of scoria and blocks. From Wordnik.com. [24 September 1986] Reference
We must know that imperialism has here all the scoria of the past. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH AT EDUCATION COUNCIL MEETING] Reference
Whence came they? how planted upon this once scraggy scoria of a country?. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
On approaching nearer the apex, the path was over cinders, fine black sand, and scoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832] Reference
He was left with this dream, like scoria upon the blackened side of a long exhausted volcano. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
The natives had to pick their way carefully on unclad feet over the nastier sections of aa and scoria. From Wordnik.com. [Icerigger]
The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
You, for example, need these trucks to remove the scoria, but these trucks are (? not) manufactured in Chile. From Wordnik.com. [TOUR OF CHUQUICAMATA] Reference
Investigations on sample of scoria shown it can be used as partial replacement of portland cement up to 25 per cent. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Such poems are worth folios of the erudite and stilted pages which are now so rapidly pouring their scoria around us. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The pukao – the headdress or ‘topknot’ – is a soft red-scoria cylinder quarried from the small crater at Puna Pau. From Wordnik.com. [The Eight Wonder of the World – Easter Island | Impact Lab] Reference
About 55 statues are made of other stone – red scoria, basalt, or trachyte – and are smaller than the average size of 5 m. From Wordnik.com. [The Eight Wonder of the World – Easter Island | Impact Lab] Reference
I, myself, in our immediate district, have never found any geological traces of scoria, or lava, or any eruptive rock whatever. From Wordnik.com. [The Master of the World] Reference
Florida levels, still lingers; and presently, amid bits of syenite, volcanic tuff and scoria, she has found this nodule of amygdaloid. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
They found a place some fifty yards from the ship where they could prop him up and let him look, a chunk of scoria supporting his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
The headlong, stammering, vivid man had made a mistake -- the fat, unwieldy, diamond-hearted creature, all crusted with slag and scoria. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
We will build with polyethylene bags filled with scoria (so-called "earthbag" construction) and do a final plastering with "papercrete". From Wordnik.com. [Building Permits Required for Alternative Sturctures?] Reference
This is a vast semicircular chasm, bounded by black perpendicular walls of rock, and surrounded by miles of rugged scoria-covered slopes. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
The whole island is of volcanic formation, and its rocks are of black scoria. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet, Volume II] Reference
Just as a fringe of scoria and lava encircles the mouth of a burning mountain. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl's Ride in Iceland] Reference
Earths surface consists of Black basal pebbles, red scoria, and coral fragments. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The scoria cone likely experienced years of explosive strombolian eruptions when it formed. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Physical Science] Reference
Christianity the service of ridding it of this scoria, this fairy tale, all touching and childish as it was. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1] Reference
These Oregon scoria cones likely experienced years of explosive eruptions if the deposits are any indication. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Physical Science] Reference
IIRC, someone had had a look at the topographic map and spotted the old scoria cones in the Fimmvörðuhálsi area. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Green said the wooly twinpod mustard plant only grows in scoria knobs, which is a rare habitat and difficult to start growing in. From Wordnik.com. Reference
This natural-color satellite image was acquired on March 26, 2010, by the scoria cover the northern half of the Fimmvörduháls Pass. From Wordnik.com. [NASA Earth Observatory]
Here are met with decomposed lava, scoria, and pumice-stones in great abundance, whilst below stretches away the boundless sea of clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
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