The plaza area stands above a bend in the Devonian Fossil Gorge and offers views upstream of limestone surfaces and downstream of a developing wetland. Upstream, the 2008 flooding only slightly deepened the gorge first cut into bedrock by the 1993 flooding, but it widened the gorge and removed the pile of unconsolidated ancient river sediments that had appeared in the center after the earlier flood. A block of limestone that had originally deflected floodwater over this sediment mound was swept away in 2008, although similar sediments were exposed farther downstream. The 2008 flooding also widened the downstream area significantly, exposing old glacial till with an orange-red pàleosol, or ancient soil. Because this area was dangerously steep, it had to be landscaped beneath the grassy hill that forms the West Bank at the lower end of the gorge. Here, the gorge rock shows broad folds with numerous faults and fractures in the area of markers 15 and 16. Just below the plaza, the 2008 flood deposited a great deal of material in the inside of the gorge's curve, where the water's energy was dissipated, including limestone blocks torn from the gorge floor and a large raft of concrete slabs joined by steel re-bar that had once formed the plaza around the lower biostrome before the flooding.