Low water levels in Lake Mead caused by the decades-long, climate change-fueled drought in the West, have revealed a number of secrets: dead bodies, shipwrecks and now ash from past volcano eruptions.

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The Colorado River is being used more and more due to the worsening drought in the west. As the water levels plummeted, several shocking discoveries, such as human remains and sunken ships, have been uncovered. Scientists discovered that events that took place millions of years ago.

In Lake Mead, on the border between the US states of Nevada and Arizona, scientists observed whitish rocks of volcanic origin. They come from various periods of volcanic activity, and the oldest are many millions of years old.

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Lake Mead's water levels are low, researchers were able to locate volcanic ash that occurred 12 million years ago.

A team of researchers recently discovered rocks that hadn’t been seen in nearly a century along the Lake Mead shoreline. What the rocks contained provided pivotal clues about dangers that lurked millions of years ago.

Visitors to the Las Vegas Valley know that the only nearby volcano is at The Mirage hotel, so why did University of Nevada researchers find volcanic ash recently in Lake Mead? The ongoing-drought caused record-low water levels in the country's largest reservoir, which uncovered rock embedded with volcanic ash from distant volcanoes.