All substances thrown out by the volcano, whether gaseous, liquid or solid, are conveniently united under the term ejectamenta (Latin, things thrown out), and all of them are in an intensely heated, if not an incandescent state. From Wordnik.com. [The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire] Reference
These may have been the ejectamenta of a whirlwind. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
They are all embedded in a light porous tuff, resembling in colour and mineral composition the ejectamenta of several of the latest eruptions of Denise. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
The interstratification of loam and volcanic ejectamenta was probably occasioned by the fluviatile mud having gradually enveloped the cones of loose scoriae after they were completely formed. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
The rivers have even in some cases, as the Sioule, near Chalucet, cut through not only the basalt which dispossessed them of their ancient channels, but have actually eaten 50 feet into the subjacent gneiss; yet the cone, an incoherent heap of scoriae and spongy ejectamenta, stands unmolested. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
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