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

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 Darwin, Charles

In the azoic period of our earth there was no life on it.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

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

From Guatemala, the country of the future by Pepper, Charles M.

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.