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Meaning of "scoria"

Scoria is a noun used in geology to describe a type of dark, vesicular volcanic rock often found in lava flows
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  • The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
  • Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater.

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The fire burns the scoria of evil.
Scoria is a type of vescular volcanic rock.
The caldera itself contains a scoria cone.
Scoria also is known as volcanic rock or lava rock.
A more modern name for cinder is scoria.
It is named after a nearby scoria cone with crater.
Thick scoria beds were produced by the fragmentation of lava flows.
The floors were covered with scoria.
Balsatic scoria volcanic rocks.
The volcano is topped off with a scoria cone.
The scoria and ash can not all be used.
And the stones there were like scoria of hierro.
Several scoria cones formed after the last ice age.
The magmatism is entirely basaltic forming scattered scoria cones.
Scoria has several useful characteristics that influence how it is used.

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Some of the moai were also carved from red scoria.
Englishthe scoria of a volcano.
A vesicular igneous rock that is very similar to scoria is pumice.
Pumice and scoria are two rocks that look very similar.
The foam is equivalent to what will become scoria on solidification.
Scoria extremely vesicular lava formed as a result of eruption in the presence of gases.
A line of smaller craters and scoria cones runs to the southeast.
Emissions consisted of pumice and dark colored volcanic rock scoria.
It consists of scoria cones with lava flows and has been active until recently.
The field consists of volcanic maars and basaltic scoria cones.
The air trapped in the scoria makes the lightweight concrete a better insulator.
Basalt with scoria.
Scoria is used on oil well sites to limit mud issues with heavy truck traffic.
Note that one of the moai is adorned with a red scoria pukao.
Flank spatter and scoria cones are most numerous on the western side of the volcano.
Prana is the purifying fire that cleans the scoria which plugs the nadis.
A new scoria cone formed that was open to the southwest and fed a growing lava flow.
This material often has fewer vesicles and a higher specific gravity than the scoria of lapilli.
It is the largest scoria cone near Melbourne.
Mount Napier has a composite lava shield with a superimposed scoria cone.
It crosses the volcanic scoria and drains into lake ConguillĂ­o.
Scoria can be used for high-temperature insulation.
View of partly quarried Little Rangitoto scoria cone at left.
Barro Negro is a scoria cone in the northern Puna of Argentina.
The Volcanic scoria.
However, the large scoria deposits in the surrounding area are still being quarried.
Uses of Scoria.
I think you've probably chalked up the highest scoria.
And it is also used to recycle industrial scoria and sulfuric-acid residue.
This dark-colored igneous rock with the trapped bubbles is known as scoria.
This leads to local build-up of scoria and to aggravated fouling and / or corrosion effects.
Rocks largely composed of volcanic glass include obsidian, scoria and pumice.
Scoria usually has a composition similar to basalt, but can also have a composition similar to andesite.
With larger vesicles and thicker vesicle walls, scoria sinks rapidly.
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