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
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
As long as the paludal theory held sway, the chemical interpretation of this identity of the product in every latitude was easy.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
