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

It is a mistake to call this lake azoic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

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.

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 Spencer, Herbert

Prior to and in the azoic age we have nothing in the universe but matter and force, and according to Mr. Spencer, not only an unknown force, but also an unseen and an unknowable force.

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