ANTWERP
Tania Farinango Vasquez - Anissa Kuru - Raquel Prudencio - Benjamin Van Kerschaever
ANTWERP
The soil of the province of Antwerp mainly consists of wet and dry sandy and loamy soils, wet loamy soils and historic polders.
We visited multiple clay quarries, with blue and yellow clay, some of them dating back from 1964. One of these quarries (Argex) is specialized in expanding clay grains which are used to fill water buffers or water infiltration basins. All over the province we found sand quarries, where they excavated yellow and white sand, typical for the province We also visited non-active quarries. Here we found waste-materials such as concrete, ceramics and stone rubble. All these waste materials piled up into artificial hills creating an eccentric landscape.