1832 S. L. Fairfield i. 45 Ghastly with lava light, the molten clouds In cloven masses swirl before his path.
1892 Ld. Tennyson Kapiolani in (1896) 889/2 Long as the lava-light Glares from the lava-lake.
1967 May 14/3 Wallgreen's drugs is advertising Lava lights with full page ads.
1997 (Nexis) 25 July a6 Taylor said tidal movements make the muck ‘boil up like that stuff in a lava light’.