Steenbergveldweg

The slow road "Steenbergveldweg" clearly refers to something geological. In this area you will find two types of stones that occur naturally here.

• On almost every field with some erosion in the region you will find flint boulders or "flints" (see photo two). And so also here along the Steenbergveldweg. You can easily recognize them because they are nicely rounded. And if you hit them together and smell them, they have a sulphurous smell. These pebbles belong to what geologists call the basic gravel of the Tertiary. These pebbles were deposited on the erosion surface of the Tertiary before a layer of sandy loam was blown up in the Quaternary. Here on these slopes, the sandy loam layer has largely eroded and you get to see the Tertiary clay here and there with some remnants of that basic gravel on top. I suspect that they did not name the Steenbergveldweg after these stones, but after the second type of rock that you find here.
• The second type of rock you will find is a stone that was created because the grains of sand from the Tertiary soil layer have been compacted into larger stone blocks. In many places in the area, these rock layers were quarried as building blocks, such as in the famous Wofsputten of Dilbeek behind the library. You will find these rocks on the fields (see photo), and are not rounded at all. They have a green and a rusty color. The green comes from the glauconite, and the rusty comes naturally from the iron in the sand layers. I suspect that it was these layers of rock that gave this berg and the path its name.

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