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...
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Grand Canyon National Park (category Geotopes)
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...
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recognised the Rhön as a biosphere reserve. Among the most picturesque geotopes in Bavaria, are the Franconian sites of Fossa Carolina, the Twelve Apostle...
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Danube Gorge (Weltenburg) (category Geotopes)
Bavarian county of Kelheim, which has been recognised as a nature reserve and geotope. This section of the valley in the southern Franconian Jura is officially...
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Arches National Park (category Geotopes)
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...
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Vermilion Cliffs National Monument (category Geotopes)
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is located in northern Coconino County, Arizona, United States, immediately south of the Utah state line. This national...
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Red Main (section Bodenmühlwand geotope)
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...
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Festningen Geotope Protected Area (Norwegian: Festningen geotopvernområde) is located at the outermost edge of Grønfjorden's mouth to Isfjorden on Nordenskiöld...
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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...
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Big Hole (category Geotopes)
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...
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Yonaguni Monument (category Geotopes)
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...
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erratic boulders, of which the 22 largest belong to legally-protected geotopes (see also: Erratics on and around Rügen). The heartland of Rügen is gently...
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of the Brocken, together with 76 other interesting geotopes, were designated as a "National Geotope". The Brocken is a place of extreme weather conditions...
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König-Otto-Tropfsteinhöhle (section Geotope)
cave is designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment as Geotope 373H001. From April to October, regular guided tours take place via easily...
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seem to have been hewed by Middle Bronze Age (c. 1500–1200 BCE) axes. "Géotope suisse n°283 (GE)" (PDF). data.geo.admin.ch. 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2022-07-24...
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List of protected areas of Svalbard (section National parks, nature reserves and geotope protection areas)
national parks, six nature reserves, fifteen bird sanctuaries and one geotope protected area. In addition, human traces dating from before 1946 are automatically...
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On a smaller scale, these karst processes are still working. Important geotopes are found at the Swabian Alb, mainly in valleys at the foremost northwest...
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Natural Bridges National Monument (category Geotopes)
Natural Bridges National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of the Four Corners boundary of southeast Utah,...
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2006 the Externsteine site has been a Nationaler Geotop [de] (national geotope).: 27 H. Beck, J. Udolph, "Externsteine: Namenkundliches" in Reallexikon...
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Sassen-Bünsow Land and Sør-Spitsbergen. The island also features Festningen Geotope Protected Area; some of the northeastern coast is part of Nordaust-Svalbard...
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Schöllenen. Aaregranit in der Schöllenen und gotthardmassivische Sedimente, Géotope suisse n°302 (2012). The modern spelling in ö is a hypercorrection based...
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was also designated in May 2006 as one of the 77 most important national geotopes in Germany by the Academy of Geosciences in Hanover. In the Bohemian part...
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merging fifteen villages surrounding the gorge. Since 2006, it is a national geotope. The name "Porta Westfalica" is a Latin term that means "Gate to Westphalia"...
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White Main Spring (section Geotope)
spring is designated by the Bavarian Department of the Environment as Geotope 472Q003. Dietmar Herrmann: Der Ochsenkopf im Fichtelgebirge; Band 17/2009...
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Monte Kaolino (section Geotope status)
Bayerische Landesamt für Umwelt lists the „Monte Kaolino“ bei Hirschau as a geotope. List of funicular railways "Über Uns – Monte Kaolino" (in German). Retrieved...
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National parks (green), nature reserves (purple), geotope protection areas (orange) and bird sanctuaries of Svalbard...
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the LUBW map service. Its height is commonly given as nine metres, c.f. Geotope fact file. LUBW: Abfluss-Kennwerte HQ and MQ/NQ Archived 2017-12-28 at...
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Smoking Hills (category Geotopes)
The Smoking Hills are located on the east coast of Cape Bathurst in Canada's Northwest Territories, next to the Arctic Ocean and a small group of lakes...
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