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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.
A cinder cone (or scoria cone [1]) is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The pyroclastic fragments are formed by explosive eruptions or lava fountains from a single, typically cylindrical, vent.
Terraria (/ t ə ˈ r ɛər i ə / ⓘ tə-RAIR-ee-ə [1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms.
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]
The 5.5 km (3.4 mi) wide island is a symmetrical shield volcano cone capped by central scoria cones, reaching a height of 260 m (850 ft). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Rangitoto is the youngest and largest of the approximately 50 volcanoes of the Auckland volcanic field , having erupted in two phases about 1450 CE and 1500 CE [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and covering an area of ...
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.
Kimberlite pipes are the most important source of mined diamonds today. The consensus on kimberlites is that they are formed deep within Earth's mantle . Formation occurs at depths between 150 and 450 kilometres (93 and 280 mi), potentially from anomalously enriched exotic mantle compositions, and they are erupted rapidly and violently, often ...
Scoria is a type of vesicular volcanic rock. Scoria may also refer to: Scoria (wrestler), Mexican wrestler, also known as Escoria; Elvis Scoria (born 1971), Croatian football player; Slag, or other waste from iron production Scoria brick, a kind of brick made of iron slag from North-East England; Scoria, a synonym of the moth genus Siona