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

So here are the three great elemental characters, all together—the primal sea and sky and land—to act the azoic prologue.

From Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 by Wood, William Charles Henry

Being azoic these Laurentians are older than the first age when our remotest ancestors appeared in the earliest of animal forms, millions and millions of years ago.

From Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador An Address Presented by Lt.-Colonel William Wood, F.R.S.C. before the Second Annual Meeting of the Commission of Conservation at Quebec, January, 1911 by Wood, William Charles Henry

Thus the azoic group is crystalliferous, or crystal-bearing.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

The tertiary formation is followed by an azoic formation of gneiss, mica slate, and phylada with large intrusions of granite.

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