YouTube video Maker checks Budleigh salterton's radioactive nodules and visits Fairlynch

The Triassic red sandstone cliffs are unstable above the Permian mudstones at the West end of the beach, where geologist Saskia Elliott investigated the nodules

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"This British Beach is Radioactive - Here's Why"
Geologist Saskia Elliott has posted a video on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uI1ZqTjUzak in which she treks past naturists on the beach (although she averts the camera) to seek out our famous nodules in the ancient rock formed more than 251 million years ago, and demonstrates the presence of radioactive elements with her handy geiger counter. She ends with a look at the Geology display in Fairlynch, comments on George Carter's brilliant bottle experiment (see Geology on this site) and promises to be back soon to see more. To date Saskia's video has been viewed 28,000 times, so let's hope some of those viewers are persuaded to find out more on a visit to our museum!