Places on the Triassic Coast.
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Places on the Jurassic Coast.
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Places on the Cretaceous Coast.
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Budleigh Salterton – Devon.
Budleigh Salterton is famous for its hard, muffin shaped pebbles which have been washed out of the cliffs to the west of the town by the sea.
The beach at Budleigh Salterton looking west towards the Pebble Beds.
The red Otter Sandstone cliffs at Budleigh Salterton with their unusual honeycombed weathering.
Red Otter Sandstone cliffs west of Budleigh Salterton with the pebble bed at their base.
The Triassic Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds at the base of the cliff with a cover of a layer of Otter Sandstone above.
Otter Sandstone showing honeycombed weathering above a band of yellow iron oxide with the pebble bed below.
The mouth of the River Otter east of Budleigh Salterton with a red Otter Sandstone outcrop on the far bank.
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The Budleigh Salterton pebble beds can be found to the west of the sea front. The pebbles were shaped and carried in one of the giant rivers that flowed accross the Triassic deserts about 240 million years ago.
Over the last few thousand years the pebbles have been falling from the cliffs and today make up the majority of the pebbles on the beach at Budleigh Salterton.
Budleigh Salterton pebbles have also been swept by the tides along the coast and can be found from Slapton Sands in South Devon to Hastings in Kent.