No, I’ve never heard of Randall Carlson. I’ve just read some Wiki, USGS and NPS information online and in visitor’s centers.
We used to visit my uncle a lot in Twin Falls and hiked down the Snake River Canyon many times. There’s a great natural history museum at the canyon rim. The southern tier of Idaho has very little topsoil — all eroded away by the great floods.
If you want to check them out I recommend going to the video page, link below, and scrolling to the bottom. Then scroll up to find videos on the topic. Watching them in chronological order is good because he progresses through a given topic and it helps to know what he has previously covered.