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Scoria or cinder 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 discrete grains called clasts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically dark in color (brown, black or purplish-red), and basaltic or andesitic in composition.
Scoria bricks [a] is a type of blue-grey brick made from slag, originally manufactured from the waste of the steelworks of Teesside, common across the North-East of England. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The bricks were also exported around the world and can be found in Canada, West Indies , Netherlands, Belgium, United States, India and South America.
Maungawhau / Mount Eden is a scoria cone and Tūpuna Maunga (ancestral mountain) in Mount Eden, Auckland, New Zealand. The cone is part of the Auckland volcanic field , the tallest located on the isthmus.
The scoria deposits also contain abundant mantle xenoliths of peridotite. [4] Mt Quincan, viewed from the southeast, showing the southern quarry with the main scoria cone behind it and the low-lying crater to the east. Quincan, a type of Scoria, is mined from the south west quadrant of the mountain. [5]
Eldborg í Bláfjöllum is a scoria cone, part of a group of three such small volcanoes. [2] The crater group as well as the impressive lava channels and tubes nearby are products of eruptions within the Brennisteinsfjöll volcanic system around the year 1000.
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Sooty moulds grow in thin black layers on leaves on which aphids, witefly or other sap-sucking insects have deposited their honeydew. It does not grow parasitically but it harms plants indirectly and is also unsightly.
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