How To Use Scoria In A Sentence
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I could perceive no trace of a metallic vein, so thoroughly had it been worked out, but scattered over the hillside with schist, talcose slate, and fragments of quartz, was a great deal of scoriae, showing that metal of some kind had been excavated, and that the smelting had been done on the spot.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
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The crescent-shaped floor of the caldera teems with a network of smaller volcanic mouths, cones, domes, lava channels, dikes, lavas from light felsic flows to viscid red lavas and black obsidian blocks, ochre plains of sandy alluvial deposits and red and black volcanic ejecta, scoria, lapilli and pumice, from a long series of basaltic effusions.
Teide National Park, Spain
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It has a variety of features: several lateral craters, shield volcanoes, scoriae and lava cones, extrusive domes and huge detached rocks.
Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
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In 1752 he became a monk at the monastery of the Escorial, and a year later was admitted to holy orders.
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Florida levels, still lingers; and presently, amid bits of syenite, volcanic tuff and scoria, she has found this nodule of amygdaloid.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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Some of these cones are now barely recognisable, having been excavated for the volcanic cinder, scoria, used to build the roads of Auckland.
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The crescent-shaped floor of the caldera teems with a network of smaller volcanic mouths, cones, domes, lava channels, dikes, lavas from light felsic flows to viscid red lavas and black obsidian blocks, ochre plains of sandy alluvial deposits and red and black volcanic ejecta, scoria, lapilli and pumice, from a long series of basaltic effusions.
Teide National Park, Spain
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There are also calderas, scoriae cones, lava streams, cinder fields, over 160 thermal and mineral springs, geysers, solfataras, mud pots and many other volcanic features.
Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
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Stage 8, Aug. 27: Talavera de la Reina to San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 182km
Vuelta a España returns to Basque Country
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Aug 27, stage eight: Talavera de la Reina - San Lorenzo del Escorial, 183km
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Alluvial, colluvial or chemically formed gravel, clayey gravel, sandstone, limestone, tuff, scoria are examples of marginal materials.
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Where the lime has been caught up by the scoriaceous fragments of the lower surface of the stream, it is converted into groups of beautifully radiated fibres resembling arragonite.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Residuum lac quod remanet post butirum permittunt acescere quantum acrius fieri potest et bulliunt illud, et coagulatur bulliendo, et coagulum illud desiccant ad solem, et efficitur durum sicut scoria ferri.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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The interstratified basalt lava, scoria and pyroclastic rocks yield sand, clayey soils in depressions, on plains and on outward draining slopes and a sterile cemented hardpan surface where hydrated.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
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Scoria is the most common material in most volcanic cones.
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They cut steps in the frozen snow and made good progress along a ridge of ‘rugged scoriae’ which took them to the summit.
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Most of the surface of the ground was tumbled, pitted rock - cindery scoria and solidified dark lava.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Corchado, on his return, gathered up some of the scoria and carried it to Puebla, when it was found to contain so large a percentage of sulphur as to warrant its 'denouncement' as a sulphur-mine.
Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
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Residuum lac quod remanet post butirum permittunt acescere quantum acrius fieri potest et bulliunt illud, et coagulatur bulliendo, et coagulum illud desiccant ad solem, et efficitur durum sicut scoria ferri.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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From this part descends a black scoriaceous tract; very rugged, and covered with a scanty vegetation of scattered bushes as far down as the sea.
The Malay Archipelago
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Amygdaloidal cavities are located immediately below the uppermost scoriaceous part of the second flow, near its contact with the overlying flow.
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The further western altitudes shift their pearline gray to deep blue where the sky is yellowing up behind them; and in the darkening hollows of nearer mornes strange shadows gather with the changing of the light -- dead indigoes, fuliginous purples, rubifications as of scoriae, -- ancient volcanic colors momentarily resurrected by the illusive haze of evening.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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Accordingly we all left the house after breakfast, following the track marked (H), which led us precipitously down, till we landed on the surface of the large crater, an immense sheet of scoriaceous lava cooled suddenly from a state of fusion; the upheaved waves and deep hollows evidencing that congelation has taken place before the mighty agitation has subsided.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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The history of the decoration of the Escorial is a record of Philip's sometimes reluctant accommodation to circumstances beyond his control.
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They can be traced for more than 40 miles, and for most of the strike length it is a thin, sandy or ‘scoriaceous’ bed, ranging from a few inches to a few feet in thickness.
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It's always slightly warmer on Rangitoto thanks to the black scoria, but the 360 degree view of the gulf and the volcano-studded cityscape of Auckland is matchless.
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On the western side of the mesa, black hornblende xenocrysts several centimeters in size are also found in a scoriaceous, agglomeratic portion of the lava flow.
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This area of tufa cones, dark and grey basalt, clinkers, scoriae, fine ash, and ferruginous basalt, is something gigantic.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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They are never scoriaceous, for the steam with which they were charged was not allowed to expand and distend them with steam blebs.
The Elements of Geology
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The difficulties of our road now increased, "if _road_ that might be called, which road was none," but black loose ashes, and masses of scoria and lava heaped in ridges, or broken into hollows in a manner not to be described.
The Diary of an Ennuyée
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Small vesicular pieces of volcanic material, scoria, collect around the vent to form a cinder cone.
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Shoshonite nearest the contact with the overlying flow is scoriaceous and, being less weather resistant, has eroded back to form a conspicuous bench.
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Horrid streams of a-a have to be cautiously skirted, which after rushing remorselessly over the kindlier lava have heaped rugged pinnacles of brown scoriae into impassable walls.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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To the South-west the plain is bounded by ridges of scoriaceous basalt, and by a buttress of rock called Jabal Ayr, like Ohod, about three miles distant from the town.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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Where the lime has been caught up by the scoriaceous fragments of the lower surface of the stream, it is converted into groups of beautifully radiated fibres resembling arragonite.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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From the granite-and-marble statues of Old Testament kings above the main courtyard, to the blue azulejo tiles in the royal apartments (to say nothing of the Titians, El Grecos, and Riberas), the Escorial has borne up splendidly over four centuries.
The Caudillo’s Cloister
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Most of the surface of the ground was tumbled, pitted rock - cindery scoria and solidified dark lava.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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In addition to scoria and ash, other volcanic ejecta include blocks, bombs, and xenoliths.
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The literalization of the City of God on earth, manifest in the following century by El Escorial in Spain, was endemic to temporal concerns after overseas voyages had ruptured and doubled the known world. 299 159
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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It is covered with short, yellowish grass through which the burnt-up, scoriaceous lava rock protrudes in rough masses.
Travels in West Africa
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“Material objects,” said a French philosopher, “are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin; in other words, visible nature must have a spiritual and moral side.”
Nature
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At the end of an hour, the ascent becoming every moment more abrupt, we had passed the belt of trees and bushes, and reached the smooth and scoriaceous cone, which, during the rainy season, appears from the bay to be covered with a velvety mantle of green.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
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Based on the composition and texture differences of the cones, the cones have been subdivided into scoria cone, spatter cone and mixed cone.
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We also learn that the quintets were composed for the Spanish Royal Family to be played in the splendid retreat of El Escorial which was apparently quite a musical haven in the 18th century.
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So much smoke, and possibly scoriae and cinders were mingled with them, that their light gleamed but faintly amid the gloom of the night.
The Mysterious Island
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The summer school lasted for a week, and this gave the foreign visitors a rare opportunity to see the whole of the Escorial systematically and in chronological order, which is not a feat that can be accomplished even in a single day.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Monogenetic volcanoes are small and occur as scoria cones, tuff cones and rings, and maars; they form from single, typically brief eruptions.
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The lithoid masses here cover, if we may use the expression, the shore of the ancient interior sea; everything subject to destruction, such as the liquid dejections, and the scoriae filled with bubbles, has been carried away.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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The Katusha team rider broke away from the pack on a brutal 20-degree final climb to finish the 110-mile course from Talavera de la Reina to San Lorenzo de El Escorial in 4 hours, 49 minutes, 1 second.
SI.com
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Near them is the red sandstone, lying under the basalt, and baked to a scoriaceous cinder.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882
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Hence olivine occurs in basalt, lava, obsidian, artificial scoriae in meteoric stones, in the syenite of Elfdale, and (as hyalosiderite) in the wacke of the Kaiserstuhl.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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There was light pumice everywhere, but nothing like recent lava or scoriae.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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The fine-grained ash groundmass contains equal proportions of scoriaceous tachylite and palagonite with basaltic lithic fragments.
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Pillars of smoke and flame escaped from the crater; a hail of scoriae fell on the ground; but no current of lava burst from the mouth of the volcano, which proved that the volcanic matter had not yet attained the level of the superior orifice of the central shaft.
The Mysterious Island