Dr. Christian de Duve, a biochemist and Nobel Prize winner who has written on the origin of life, said Dr. Wachtershauser's new work was "an extremely interesting finding which fits with the idea that life may have originated in a volcanic setting."

It is a rare but important mineral for understanding the volcanic settings in Western Serbia.

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InSAR can be used in a variety of volcanic settings, including deformation associated with eruptions, inter-eruption strain caused by changes in magma distribution at depth, gravitational spreading of volcanic edifices, and volcano-tectonic deformation signals.