Petrogenesis and mantle source characteristics of Quaternary alkaline mafic lavas in the western Carpathian-Pannonian Region, Styria, Austria

Funding

Our thanks go to S. Harangi, Eotvos University, Budapest for valuable discussions and also to Cin-ty A. Lee for clarifying the thermobarometery of the magma generation. Sh. Ali would like to thank the staff members and technicians of Department of Lithospheric Research, University of Vienna. He also expresses his heartfelt gratitude to his parents for their unconditional love, encouragement and continuing support during all these years. Critical comments and constructive reviews by O. Vaselli and an anonymous referee and by editor, L Reisberg, substantially improved an early version of this manuscript. Sh. Ali was financially supported by the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and State for Scientific Research at the University of Vienna, Austria.