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Pumiceous   Listen
adjective
Pumiceous  adj.  Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pumiceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... aspect of the central isles. Neokaimeni, the last-formed island, is a great heap of obsidian and scoriae. So, also, is the greater mass, Microkaimeni, which rises up in a conical form, and has a cavity or crater. On one side of this island, however, a section is exposed, and cliffs of fine pumiceous ash appear stratified in the greater islands. In the main island, the volcanic strata abut against the limestone mass of Mount St. Elias in such a way as to lead to the inference that they were deposited ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt



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