Petrified Miocene quartz sand in the old Grube Gotthold mine on the Liebenwerda Heath, Lower Lusatia
A geotope is the geological component of the abiotic matrix present in an ecotope. Example geotopes might be an exposed outcrop of rocks, an erratic boulder, a grotto or ravine, a cave, an old stone wall marking a property boundary, and so forth.
It is a loanword from German (Geotop) in the study of ecology and might be the model for many other similar words coined by analogy. As the prototype, it has enjoyed wider currency than many of the other words modelled on it, including physiotope, with which it is used synonymously. But the geotope is properly the rocks and not the whole lay of the land (which would be the physiotope).
For usage in the context of geoheritage, like e.g. in Friedrich Wiedenbein's contributions (see below) and in the German discussion on geoheritage, the more adequate term (and translation from the German) is geosite.
A geotope is the geological component of the abiotic matrix present in an ecotope. Example geotopes might be an exposed outcrop of rocks, an erratic boulder...
national parks, six nature reserves, fifteen bird sanctuaries and one geotope protected area. In addition, human traces dating from before 1946 are automatically...
the Greek bios (meaning 'life') and topos ('place'). (The related word geotope has made its way into the English language by the same route, from the...
Festningen Geotope Protected Area (Norwegian: Festningen geotopvernområde) is located at the outermost edge of Grønfjorden's mouth to Isfjorden on Nordenskiöld...
The Red Main (German: Roter Main or Rotmain) is a river in southern Germany. It is the southern, left headstream of the river Main. It rises in the hills...
Grand Canyon National Park, located in northwestern Arizona, is the 15th site in the United States to have been named as a national park. The park's central...
spring is designated by the Bavarian Department of the Environment as Geotope 472Q003. Dietmar Herrmann: Der Ochsenkopf im Fichtelgebirge; Band 17/2009...
Office for the Environment (LfU) as a geo-scientifically valuable geotope (Geotope number: 372R009). The rocky summit of the Little Osser consists of...
recognised the Rhön as a biosphere reserve. Among the most picturesque geotopes in Bavaria, are the Franconian sites of Fossa Carolina, the Twelve Apostle...
The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit. "Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography"), also known as "Yonaguni...
Sassen-Bünsow Land and Sør-Spitsbergen. The island also features Festningen Geotope Protected Area; some of the northeastern coast is part of Nordaust-Svalbard...
Arches National Park is a national park in eastern Utah, United States. The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 mi (6 km) north of Moab, Utah. The...
Because of their role in Swiss cartography, the rocks have been declared a "Geotope", a national site of geological heritage. Genevan scientist Horace Bénédict...
of the Brocken, together with 76 other interesting geotopes, were designated as a "National Geotope". The Brocken is a place of extreme weather conditions...
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is located in northern Coconino County, Arizona, United States, immediately south of the Utah state line. This national...
Bayerische Landesamt für Umwelt lists the „Monte Kaolino“ bei Hirschau as a geotope. List of funicular railways "Über Uns – Monte Kaolino" (in German). Retrieved...
of Westerwaldkreis in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is a geotope of the Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus Geopark The Bacher Lay is a disused basalt...
the south to Geisingen in the north. The Hegau volcanoes are national geotopes of Germany. The Hegau region, situated at about 400 m (1,300 ft) a.s.l...
Area of Norway: 385,252 km2 Atlas of Norway Climate of Norway Festningen Geotope Protected Area Renewable energy in Norway Geology of Norway Protected areas...
2003 by the Bavarian Environment Ministry as one of the 100 mos beautiful geotopes in Bavaria. Further south its waters empty into the River Ilz. At the westernmost...
The Kimberley Mine or Tim Kuilmine (Afrikaans: Groot Gat) is an open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley, South Africa, and claimed to be the deepest...
Velburg is a town in the district of Neumarkt in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 17 km southeast of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, and 39 km northwest of...
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