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 Huxley, Thomas Henry
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
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.
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.
