azoic

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Scientists long ago clung to the "azoic hypothesis" about the deep -- the presumption that nothing could possibly be alive so far from the photosynthetic world.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2010

Murchison, Sir R., on the formations of Russia, 290. ——, on azoic formations, 308. ——, on extinction, 317.

From On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Darwin, Charles

If the great deposit of "red clay" now forming in the eastern valley of the Atlantic were metamorphosed into slate and then upheaved, it would constitute an "azoic" rock of enormous extent.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

The latter formation is found in other sections with precarboniferous limestone and also with crystalline limestone of the azoic age.

From Guatemala, the country of the future by Pepper, Charles M.

The obelisks are all formed of granite, the foundation-stone of the globe, belonging to the oldest azoic formation, which laid down the first basis for the appearing of life.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh