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In UK items like the gas bubble holes are called "way up structures" which is charmingly direct. Arthur's Seat Edinburgh is a similar classroom in igneous intrusions, where Charles Darwin was taught some wrong "Neptunian" geology (the dolerite was supposedly crystallised out of some primordial ocean. When it rather clearly wasn't)

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They are also called geopetal structures, from Latin petare, to aim or point. "Way up structure" is wonderfully clear in what it means!

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