azoic

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Heretofore, as is well known, an immense series of rocks below the silurians have been termed azoic, as exhibiting no remains of animal life; but this term must now be dismissed.

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Geologists have divided a few years of the worlds history into periods, reaching from the azoic rocks to the soil of our time.

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

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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.

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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