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 William Charles Henry Wood
The obelisks are all formed of granite, the foundation-stone of the globe, belonging to the oldest azoic formation, which laid down the first basis for the appearing of life.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
The total absence of any trace of fossils has inclined many geologists to attribute the origin of the most ancient strata to an azoic period, or one antecedent to the existence of organic beings.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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 Charles M. Pepper
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