paludal

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Nearly a million cubic yards of sediment had made the five-mile journey, resulting in the creation—or, to be more accurate, the re-creation—of a hundred and eighty-six paludal acres.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

A characteristic paludal deposit is a peat bog, a deposit rich in organic matter that can be converted into coal when lithified.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The specific ferment which engenders those fevers by its accumulation in the atmosphere which we breathe is not exclusively of paludal origin, and still less is it a product of putrefaction.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

But in accordance with the idea that malaria is a product of paludal decomposition, the trees selected have almost always been the eucalyptus.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

The fact that an art which springs from such a marshy soil may, like certain paludal plants, be “wonderful,” “gorgeous,” and “overwhelming,” cannot be denied; but true art it is not.

From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm