| The terrain is characterized by overall acclivity of the land, which is clayey and difficult to cultivate, but well-suited to olive growing. |
| The area has non-calcareous, brown loamy clayey soils, developed from calcareous marl. |
| Carbonaceous shale, including oil shale, occurs in beds of clayey to silty mudrock from 0.3 to 3 m thick. |
| Our Gewurztraminer are planted on the central part of the Zotzenberg which is the most clayey one. |
| The area is underlain by competent attenuative clayey and red lateritic soils. |
| The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants. |
