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The stratigraphic section of Euboea island (Greece) contains Kimmeridgian limestone, a diabase-radiolarite, and a transgressive upper Cretaceous massive limestone. Cenomanian and Maestrichtian beds are recognized with flysch deposits in the Maestrichtian and younger series. The sequence is part of a southwest plunging monocline with two fault systems: a principal NW-SE and a secondary NE-SW system. The first is believed to be pre-Pliocene and the second post-Pliocene. A metamorphic zone in the northeast consists of marbles and sericite schists with some trachyandesitic volcanics.

Flysch, limestones, radiolarites, chert, foraminifera

The stratigraphy of the island of Euboea (Greece), an area unusually well suited to investigation of the Pelagonian zone of the Hellenides, is less well known than the structure. The formations of central Euboea are carbonaceous shales of Carboniferous age, Permian black limestones overlain by diabase and spilite, Triassic and Jurassic limestones and ophiolites, upper Cretaceous basal conglomerate, limestone, and flysch, Miocene marly limestone (overlain by lagoonal and lacustrine deposits in the Kimy and Gides basins), and Pliocene conglomeratic deposits.

Kyme-Eritrea area, geologic survey, Paleozoic-Quaternary formations, lateral facies variations, volcanism