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 Wordnik.com.  [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Gulf oil spill imperils Justin Bieber] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

Murchison, Sir R.: on the formations of Russia, 289. on azoic formations, 307. on extinction, 317.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the origin of species] Reference

Edward Forbes in the late 1800's proposed this 'azoic hypothesis' for the deep sea, based on samples from the Aegean Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Duke Today Top Stories Feed] Reference

What though it be only an azoic extract of intense potato, dimly tinct with sargasso and macaroni -- it has a pleasing warmth and bulk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shandygaff] Reference

They are azoic, or devoid of fossils; and it is consequently impossible to determine exactly their geological age, or 'horizon' (ibid.p. xxiii).    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official] Reference

The presence of phosphatic nodules and bituminous matter in some of the lowest azoic rocks, probably indicates the former existence of life at these periods.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

The problem belongs to the science of statistics, and it is a most difficult affair for anyone whose mathematics is primitive, and mine remain azoic in spite of the half dozen manuals which I once devoutly imagined that I understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Opinion] Reference

The presence of phosphatic nodules and bituminous matter, even in some of the lowest azoic rocks, probably indicates life at these periods; and the existence of the Eozoön in the Laurentian formation of Canada is generally admitted.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record. On the Sudden Appearance of Groups of Allied Species in the Lowest Known Fossiliferous Strata] Reference

To crown all, the work of separation wrought so surely, yet so slowly, by the hand of Time, is now reversed in our own day, and "Manahatta" and "Seawanhaka" are joined again, as once they were before the dawn of life in the far azoic ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opening Ceremonies of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, May 24, 1883] Reference

They imagined they could distinguish certain geological relations and families, and would talk about trilobites, the Old Red Sandstone period, and the azoic age, or follow random speculation to far-lying conclusions, developing vague humors of phrase and fancy, having altogether a joyful good time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

It is a mistake to call this lake azoic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference

On azoic formations, 308.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

Nodules, phosphatic, in azoic rocks, 308.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

Nodules, phosphatic, in azoic rocks, 307.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the origin of species] Reference