How often do you look down at what you are walking on rather than the view ahead? I’m guessing not often….unless it’s muddy and you are watching where to put your feet.

At our end of the Downs it can be quite interesting to study what’s underfoot as our geology is quite varied. Even between QECP and Buriton there are 5 different types of chalk – not that the differences are perhaps easy to spot. Join this walk to learn more about chalk in general and the other types of rock along the route back into Petersfield. We’ll be paying attention to how the path changes and looking out for clues in the buildings too. 

Maurice Curry recently retired after nearly 40 years in the oil and gas industry.  Although always based in the UK he has worked on exploration projects as far afield as Russia, Kazakhstan, Libya and most recently the Black Sea, as well as extensively in the North Sea and Atlantic margins.  By no means a local geology expert, he does hope he can give an overview of the conditions and processes that have produced the landscape around us.  Always a keen hillwalker, his most recent big trip was to the Italian Dolomites in 2019, but is most often out walking with Dexter the poodle.