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    Scoria is a pyroclastic, highly vesicular, dark-colored volcanic rock formed by ejection from a volcano as a molten blob and cooled in the air to form...
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    Cinder cone (redirect from Scoria cones)
    cinder cone (or scoria cone) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built...
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  • Look up scoria in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scoria is a type of vesicular volcanic rock. Scoria may also refer to: Scoria (wrestler), Mexican wrestler...
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    Scorias is a genus of fungi within the Capnodiaceae family. The genus was first described by Elias Magnus Fries in 1832. The fungus is known as sooty...
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    Elvis Scoria (born 5 July 1971) is a Croatian former football player and manager. He played for HNK Rijeka, Dinamo Zagreb (then called Croatia Zagreb)...
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    (neighbourhood))). Mount Scoria is a neighbourhood (24°32′00″S 150°34′00″E / 24.5333°S 150.5666°E / -24.5333; 150.5666 (Mount Scoria (neighbourhood)))....
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    Scorias spongiosa is a sooty mold fungus that grows on aphid honeydew. It is a member of the Capnodiaceae family of ascomycete fungi. It is found only...
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  • Mount Scoria Conservation Park is a park near Thangool, Queensland in Central Queensland, Australia, about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south-east of Biloela...
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    statues on Easter Island. They were all carved from a very light-red volcanic scoria, which was quarried from a single source at Puna Pau. Pukao were not made...
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    with large or small vesicles (bubble-shaped cavities) such as in pumice, scoria, or vesicular basalt. Other examples of extrusive rocks are rhyolite and...
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    Maungawhau / Mount Eden is a scoria cone and Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountain) in the Mount Eden suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. The cone is part of...
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    fusibility, as splinters of tachylite will fuse together when heated. The fine scoria ashes or "cinders" thrown out by basaltic volcanoes are often spongy masses...
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    being tuff cones and rings. Cinder cones, also known as scoria cones and less commonly scoria mounds, are small, steep-sided volcanic cones built of loose...
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    years later in the 2002–03 season, under the leadership of manager Elvis Scoria, Istra played in the final of the Croatian Cup, losing to Hajduk Split....
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    200 ft). It created many explosive eruptions that threw out large amounts of scoria, volcanic ash and lava. Following the Old Fuji period, there were about...
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    which may or may not contain crystals. It is typically light-colored. Scoria is another vesicular volcanic rock that differs from pumice in having larger...
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    A thin section of a clast (sand grain), derived from a basalt scoria. Vesicles (air bubbles) can be seen throughout the clast. Plane light above, cross-polarized...
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    also 13 moai carved from basalt, 22 from trachyte and 17 from fragile red scoria. At the end of carving, the builders would rub the statue with pumice. Easter...
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    and tephra that fell over Sicily and accumulated to form the Monti Rossi scoria cone. Lava disgorged from the eruption fissures flowed southwards away from...
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    basalt plateau filled with scoria cones like Parícutin, along with small shield volcanoes, maars, tuff rings and lava domes. Scoria cones are the most common...
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    basaltic-to-andesitic cone at the northwest margin of the Pleistocene caldera. About 25 scoria cones dot Villarica's flanks. Plinian eruptions and pyroclastic flows have...
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    central part of the island. Volcanic activity later resumed, producing scoria cones and lava flows atop the older eroded shield. The most recent volcanic...
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    Mount Elephant is a 380-metre-high (1,250 ft) conical breached scoria cone formed by a dormant volcano, located 1 km from the town of Derrinallum in southwestern...
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    from vents at the bottom and walls of the crater. Layers of lava, ash, scoria and pumice make up the volcanic peak. Their mineralogy is variable, but...
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    junction of the Colorado River and the Eagle River. It is classified as a scoria cone with evaporitic rock, basaltic tephra, and oxidized sandstone. Erupting...
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    lies northwest of the Waw an Namus caldera. The caldera itself contains a scoria cone. Several small lakes and associated vegetation are located within the...
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    cones or oreums (Jeju dialect for volcanic cones) were formed by piles of scoria cones which are created by Hawaiian eruptions or Strombolian eruptions....
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    the point is irrelevant because the pukao are all made of native volcanic scoria. Easter Island was first settled around 300 CE and the pukao on the moai...
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    Scoria and cinder cones on Mauna Kea's summit in winter...
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    Makemake with two birdmen, carved from red scoria...
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