Abstract: During the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Tertiary time a continuous (3200 m) sedimentation, mainly consisting of submarine slumps,olistostromes and turbidity currents, was taking place in the western halfof the area. Meanwhile, in the eastern half, a granit complex plutonic intrusion was emplaced (Early Paleocene) in a formation, dominantly consisting of basic submarine lavas and tuffites. Uplift, erosion and subsidence of the eroded surface was followed by a marine transgression nearthe closing of Paleocene times. Following the deposition of neritic andpartly littoral sediments (700 m), towards the end of Eocene (post Lutetian) a regression developed over the whole area, causing the depositionof mainly red colored rudite, arenite and lutite, as well as lagoonal whitelimestone and gypsum.Horizontal Neogene clastics rest with an angular unconformity onthe folded, uplifted and eroded sediments of Late Cretaceous-EarlyTertiary age.