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

I reject, therefore, wholly the paludal assumption, and in order to express this view in the title of my paper, have been forced to employ terms which to my hearers may sound like italicisms.

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

Unfortunately the investigations undertaken for this end have for a long time been fruitless, for the preconceived paludal theory has led investigators to occupy themselves exclusively with the inferior organisms inhabiting marshes.

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