Image: Basaltic scoria

Basaltic scoria (13 cm x 9 cm), Anakie Eastern Hill, Victoria.

Photographer:

Stuart Humphreys

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© Australian Museum

Additional information

Scoria is a pyroclastic volcanic rock containing abundant empty cavities (or vesicles) and is usually of basaltic composition.

Last Updated: 27 August 2009

Tags igneous rocks, volcanic, volcanoes, basaltic scoria, specimen, mineralogy, geosciences,