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Abstract: For the Caracas region’s Metro Line 2, currently in progress, a tunnel cavern (cross-section 290 m, length 302 m) was excavated in saturated weathered graphitc schist. The upper part was driven through transition material between soil and weathered rock with very high SPTs in almost impenetrable ground. Hardness increased quickly with depth of predominantly weathered rock in the lower part of...