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unusual facts about Vesicular texture


Thangool, Queensland

Despite its name the mountain features very little scoria, with most of the mountain made up of vesicular basalt.


Edeowie glass

Edeowie glass is a slag-like, opaque rare natural glass found as vesicular or in sheet-like masses in a semi-continuous swath in baked sediment, about 55 km long and 10 km wide along the western side of the Flinders Ranges near Parachilna, South Australia and Lake Torrens.


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