page_title: Geotope
hierarchical_section_title: Geotope
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Verkieselte Quarzsande in der Grube Gotthold bei Hohenleipisch. English: Silicified quartz sands in the abandoned mine Gotthold near Hohenleipisch.
context_page_description: 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 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.
context_section_description: 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).
caption: Petrified Miocene quartz sand in the old Grube Gotthold mine on the Liebenwerda Heath, Lower Lusatia
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