Helling in de Scheiweg | Gemert

If you look from west to east across the Scheiweg, you will see a slope in the road. The difference in height is 3 meters over a distance of less than 100 meters. That difference in elevation was caused by the Breuk van Handel, a side fault of the Peelrand fault.

The Peelrand fault The subsurface of Gemert-Bakel contains faults in the earth's crust. The Peelrand fault is the most important of these. Side faults are the Breuk van Gemert, the Breuk van Gemert-zuid, the Breuk van Handel and the Breuk van Milheeze. The soil on the east side of this fault system slowly rises. This is the so-called Peelhorst. The soil on the west side is slowly descending. That is the so-called Roerdalslenk. This vertical movement averages about 0.5 mm in ten years. In the long run, this will become large height differences. Because at the same time the descending Roerdalslenk is filled by the wind with covering sand, there are no steep slopes and the height differences are not visible everywhere. At this place, where the Scheiweg passes the fracture of Handel, this difference in elevation is visible. Besides differences in elevation, there are other phenomena by which you can recognize the location of Peelrand Fault and its side fractures.

As a result of the Fault of Handel, there is a slope in the Scheiweg.