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

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.

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 Lyell, Charles, Sir

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

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