“…1. From the end Albian to Cenomanian, associated to the passive margin to foreland transition, the subsidence in the southern and western sector of the Friuli -Adriatic Platform abruptly stopped, as it is demonstrated by the persistent post Albian gap in the subsurface (wells Nervesa, Cesarolo) and outcrops in western Istria (Otoničar, 2007;Brčić et al, 2017), whereas other wells to the north and east show a more continuous Upper Cretaceous succession (Cargnacco and Grado, see ViDEPI and Cimolino et al, 2010). Underlying a prominent unconformity, covered by upper Oligocene to Lower Miocene glauconitic carbonates (Cavanella Group of the subsurface, e.g.…”