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Definition of Scoriaceous
1. a. Of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement of metals; partaking of the nature of scoria.
Definition of Scoriaceous
1. Adjective. of, relating to, or producing scoria ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scoriaceous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoriaceous
Literary usage of Scoriaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Volcanoes of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and by Israel Cook Russell (1897)
"... still plastic when they reach the earth, but more frequently, perhaps, cool
and harden into rough, scoriaceous, slag-like masses before coming to rest. ..."
2. Volcanoes of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and by Israel Cook Russell (1897)
"... still plastic when they reach the earth, but more frequently, perhaps, cool
and harden into rough, scoriaceous, slag-like masses before coming to rest. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"... its general relation to both these rocks indicates that it is of more modern
eruption.— P. 42. gether different from those of the scoriaceous lava of ..."
4. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"... —laufer, m. wheel-barrow-man whose business it is to carry away the dross; —la»0, /.
scoriaceous lava; — ofen, m. furnace to melt scoria; ..."
5. The Earth in Past Ages by Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick (1888)
"scoriaceous LAVA. From Lyell's "Geology." The moulds were made by fire, though
it was a dissolved and not a melted mineral which filled them (Fig. 13). ..."
6. The Earth in Past Ages by Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick (1888)
"scoriaceous LAVA. From Lyell's "Geology." The moulds were made by fire, though
it was a dissolved and not a melted mineral which filled them (Fig. 13). ..."
7. The Earth's History: An Introduction to Modern Geology by Robert Davies Roberts (1893)
"... in part of ejected blocks, and the way in which many of the lavas have cooled
in rugged scoriaceous surfaces is as conspicuous as on any modern coulee? ..."
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