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

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

In the Roman states alone, sixty thousand perish every year from this paludal influence.

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Hamlin, Augustus C.

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