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 Thomas Henry Huxley
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 Herbert Spencer
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 Aaron Walker
Thus such of the first-formed strata as survived the repeated changes of level, would be practically "azoic;" like the Cambrian of our geologists.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
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