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Their surfaces are rough, and fissured with branching cracks; their internal structure is either irregularly scoriaceous and compact, or it presents a symmetrical and very curious appearance.

From Volcanic Islands by Darwin, Charles

Thus, in most cases, a bed of lava is scoriaceous as well below as above.

From Geology by Geikie, James

We climbed slowly around the lower spurs of Coropuna into a bleak desert wilderness of lava blocks and scoriaceous sand, the Red Desert, or Pampa Colorada.

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Bingham, Hiram

It is covered with short, yellowish grass through which the burnt-up, scoriaceous lava rock protrudes in rough masses.

From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.

Some of the bombs thrown out during recent eruptions of Etna consist of white granular quartz, encased in a black scoriaceous crust, the quartz representing an altered sandstone.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various