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

When they knocked off the mould, these same authorities found that Challoner was right: this bit of concrete wall was as solid as if it had been cut out of smooth azoic rock.

From The Red Mouse by Osborne, William Hamilton

It is a mistake to call this lake azoic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

He has explored portions of that continent as far down as the azoic rocks, and made many important discoveries as to the past life of the globe.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

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.