Exposure of penninic rock lying below the austroalpine rocks
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Overview of the Engadin window and the surrounding austroalpine units.
The Engadin window or (Lower Engadin window) is a tectonic window that exposes penninic units lying below the austroalpine units in the alpine nappe stack. It has a roughly elliptical shape with the long axis striking northwest-southeast and dimensions of 55 x 17 km.[1]
From a geographic perspective the window stretches from Zernez (Graubünden, Switzerland) to Landeck (Tirol, Austria), or the Lower Engadin.
^Schmid, Stefan M.; Fügenschuh, Bernhard; Kissling, Eduard; Schuster, Ralf (30 April 2004). "Tectonic map and overall architecture of the Alpine orogen". Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. 97 (1): 93–117. Bibcode:2004SwJG...97...93S. doi:10.1007/s00015-004-1113-x.
The Engadinwindow or (Lower Engadinwindow) is a tectonic window that exposes penninic units lying below the austroalpine units in the alpine nappe stack...
either known as Engadin (German pronunciation: [ˈɛŋɡadiːn] , locally also [ɛŋɡaˈdiːn]) or Engadine (/ˈɛŋɡədiːn/ ENG-gə-deen, US also /ˌɛŋɡəˈdiːn/ ENG-gə-DEEN)...
and several crystalline rocks in geological windows, such as the Engadinwindow and the Hohe Tauern window in the Central Alps. The East Alpine system:...
the Tristel Formation found in eastern Switzerland, the Engadinwindow and the Tauern window. Loprieno, Andrea. "earth.unibas.ch/tecto/research/Diss_Loprieno_2001_small...
largest part of that country, except for a few windows like the Hohe Tauern window and the Engadinwindow. Before the formation of the Alps in the lower...
Rhenodanubic Group. Outcrops can be found in the Engadinwindow, the Tauern window, the Rechnitz window, and many localities of the Penninic realm of the...
basalt, pillow lava). The windows in the overlying Austroalpine nappes reveal the underlying Penninic nappes. In the Engadinwindow, remnants are found in...
to Poschiavo in Switzerland and Tirano in Italy by crossing the Swiss Engadin Alps. For most of its journey, the train also runs along the World Heritage...
(Italian: Passo del Maloja, German: Malojapass) (el. 1815 m.) linking the Engadin and the Bregell valley, very close to the village of Maloja, a hamlet in...
places in the Alps, examples are the Hohe Tauern window and the smaller Engadin and Rechnitz windows. Geology of the Alps Elfert, Simon (22 April 2014)...
purposes of advertising. The technique was also used in Thuringia, the Engadin, Austria, and Transylvania. In Catalonia, sgraffito gained prominence during...
Switzerland, near the former municipality of Tarasp (now Scuol), in Lower Engadin, Graubünden. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. Tarasp...
1906/07. Engadin Express & Alpine Post, 9 December 1913, p. 14. Engadin Express & Alpine Post, 4 February 1913 & 28 February 1913. Engadin Express &...
evidence from the main Alpine ridge and the north side of the Alps, in the Engadin it occurred only historically, otherwise almost everywhere recent records...
Bernhardt, 1930) Love's Carnival (dir. Hans Steinhoff, 1930) Abenteuer im Engadin (dir. Max Obal, 1932) The Oil Sharks (French-language version, dir. Rudolph...
hospital, called Ospidal Engiadina Bassa (Romansh: Hospital of the Lower Engadin). The hospital celebrated its 100th anniversary on 21 June 2008. It is...
das Ladin entgegen...Die deutsche Sprache lässt sich gewiss leicht ins Engadin einführen, sobald man das Volk nur einmal von den daraus entspringenden...
scenery and architecture in Guarda, Chönz's home village in the Lower Engadin, after which he modeled the protagonist's village. In October 1945 the...
from Chur fought under the Bishop's Vogt Heinrich Ammann in the Lower Engadin, in Prättigau and near Balzers. Troops from Chur also took part in the...
territory. The exemption was maintained even when a road was built to the Engadin valley in 1907–1912. Before 1597, the two present-day cantons of Appenzell...
stone, often on top of or surrounding an earlier wooden building. In the Engadin valley they built stone byre-dwellings, typically with a Sulèr, a wide...
escape into the Atlantic Ocean. Swiss National Park was established in the Engadin region of Switzerland. The Calcutta Scottish volunteer regiment for the...
Widmer, Kuno (Ubersetzer). Die drei Hunde: Rätoromanische Märchen aus dem Engadin - Oberhalbstein - Schams. Desertina, 2004. Tale nr. 86. ISBN 3856372997...
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