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
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 Thomas Henry Huxley
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 William Hamilton Osborne
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 R. W. Wright
Thus such of the first-formed strata as survived the repeated changes of level, would be practically "azoic;" like the Cambrian of our geologists.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
