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
Thus the azoic group is crystalliferous, or crystal-bearing.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
We may infer, then, that the strata deposited next after the almost "azoic" strata, would contain the remains of invertebrata, allied to those found near the shores of Australia and South America.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
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 Charles Darwin
How then, from the absence of fossils in the Longmynd beds and their equivalents, can we conclude that the Earth was "azoic" when they were formed?
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
