Image: Pumice
Pumice (13 cm x 9 cm), Drifted block from 1912 eruption of South Sandwich Island. Found on King Island, Tasmania.
- Photographer:
- Stuart Humphreys
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
Additional information
Pumice is a pyroclastic, glassy volcanic rock containing abundant empty cavities (or vesicles), usually of rhyolitic composition.
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Tags igneous rocks, volcanic, volcanoes, mineralogy, specimen, geosciences, pumice, pyroclastic, rhyolitic,