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What does pumiceous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
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Pumiceous peperite is associated with a rhyolitic sill that intruded wet, unconsolidated, submarine stratified pumice breccia in the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics, Australia.
Rhyolite tuffs contain pumiceous, glassy fragments and small scoriae with quartz, alkali feldspar, biotite, etc.
Half way up was a square enclosure of some greyish stone, which I found subsequently was built partly of coral and partly of pumiceous lava.
Upon this rests a pumiceous breccia and conglomerate, with angular masses of trachyte, and some quartz pebbles.
Pumiceous pyroclastic products are present as flows and falls at several stages of the evolution of the southern Guadeloupe volcanic island.
The Awaiti sandy loam is developed from thin Tarawera tephra on fine pumiceous alluvium, chiefly derived from Kaharoa Ash and is moderately well drained.

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