lava rock

collocation in English

meaningsoflavaandrock

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lava
noun[U]
uk
/ˈlɑː.və/us
/ˈlɑː.və/
hot liquid rock that comes out of the earth through a volcano, or the solid rock formed when ...
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rock
noun
uk
/rɒk/us
/rɑːk/
the dry solid part of the earth's surface, or any large piece of this that sticks up out of the ground or ...
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(Definition oflavaandrockfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The buildings were built withlavarockand are considered good examples of storage buildings built from the rock by a farmer.
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Massivelavarockwalls form the central fireplaces and angled interior walls, while concrete arches radiate from the fireplaces to support the roof structures.
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Roughly 3 kilometers from the base of the volcano, the land is full oflavarockand cacti.
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Shredded, long-fibered or live sphagnum moss is preferred as a soil substrate, often with added horticulturallavarock, perlite, and pumice.
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The 18-foot warning track is crushedlavarock.
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Made of piledlavarock, it was a square of 100 ft, with walls eight feet high and four feet thick.
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The remainder of the material thought to be tephra was in fact brokenlavarock.
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At higher elevations above the clouds, the landscape is dry and barrenlavarock.
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Because of the sharp, barrenlavarockon the way, it would have been much faster to use canoes.
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Thelavarockused for the foundation, support piers, and texture in the stucco also show commitment to the use of local materials.
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Thelavarockhouse is topped by a gable roof with four purlins and a dormer on the south side.
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The tuffs are above a thick formation oflavarock.
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The mesa was named for the layer of blacklavarockthat coats it.
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The aircraft continued through the jungle vegetation, struck a three-foot-highlavarockwall, and stopped about 3,090 feet from the runway threshold.
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Then they broughtlavarockto the site and crushed it into a gravel to create a dry foundation for the temple.
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The barn features an arched rainbow roof and alavarockfoundation; the roof style is considered unusual for barns in the region.
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In this context, they are referred to frequently with the namelavarock.
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These are puddles or ponds located near shores and surrounded withlavarock.
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Water is supplied through the surface of the biofilter and trickles down over thelavarockto the bottom, where it is collected.
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