Engadinian Tectonic Window - one of two outstanding tectonic windows in the Eastern Alps. Tectonics The Engadinian Tectonic Window forms a very small area in the Eastern Alps in the Lower Engadine (Swiss canton of Graubünden) with a tectonic window. The sedimentary rocks of the Jurassic age are uncovered in the window, from which the older metamorphic rocks lie. The tectonic window surrounding the metamorphic formations, probably the testicles of the mantle, was removed from the ground due to the mountainous orogeny of the alpine orogeny and put on the younger Jurassic sedimentary rocks. The Engadinian Tectonic Window was created as a result of erosion of overhanging, metamorphic rocks of the superstructure.

The second, much larger, tectonic window in the Eastern Central Alps is the Taurian Tectonic Window.

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