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carboniferous
adjective
- producing or containing carbon or coal
- designating or of the fifth geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, subdivided into the Pennsylvanian () and the Mississippian () and characterized by warm, moist climate and vast swamps which eventually formed into extensive coal deposits
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