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What is a malpais?

What is a malpais? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
  2. (geology) Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.
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Notify Buck Weaver, so he can head them off if they try to cross the malpais.
Ditto or unfinished mortar of the malpais for grinding chili and other ingredients for sauce.
Bonsai-like Douglas firs and ponderosa pines animate the petrified lava flows of El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico.
A single metate of lava or malpais was excavated at Awatobi.
Others were left to rebuild their lives on the malpais, volcanic land east of their original homeland.
Tell him to send his posse across the malpais toward the rim-rock.

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