This location near Lion Rock is featured in Nick Zentner's geology videos, where he explores Pacific Northwest geological features and their connection to the region's dramatic volcanic and glacial history.
A terse line from a survey notebook, and the flood evidence it set down.
Nick Zentner's video lectures from locations like this have brought Pacific Northwest geology to millions of viewers online, making the science accessible and building public support for geological heritage preservation.
Active: 1992-present (CWU faculty; public outreach since ~2010) Affiliation: Central Washington University, Department of Geological Sciences Notable work: Nick on the Rocks (PBS), Nick from Home (livestream lecture series), Ice Age Floods A to Z (2023-2024 video series)
Zentner joined the CWU geology department in 1992 and has built a parallel career as the most visible public communicator of Pacific Northwest geology working today. He is not primarily a flood-chronology researcher; his contribution is translating the work of Bretz, Pardee, Baker, Bjornstad, and Balbas into accessible long-form lectures, field videos, and roadside-geology episodes. His 26-episode Ice Age Floods A to Z series (2023-2024) walks through the flood evidence catchment by catchment, drawing on interviews with practicing scabland researchers. He won the National Association of Geoscience Teachers' James H. Shea Award (2015) for science outreach and the Geological Society of America's Public Service Award (2023). His YouTube channel passed the Silver Creator threshold in 2025.
Source: Nick Zentner - Wikipedia; Ice Age Floods Institute; hugefloods.com
Flood-extent overlay shows the maximum reach of the Missoula Floods.
One of more than 1,800 surveyed sites. Plotted together, the field record is the map that proved the flood.
View on the interactive map Cinematic timeline · 3D flood · every captured siteA panorama from the spot the entry describes, looking out the way the surveyor saw it.
From the air, the feature in the note reads as part of the larger flood landscape it belongs to.
A photogrammetry model of a key specimen at the site, the evidence the line of notes rests on.