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Abstract: During the driving of a tunnel through the North-West Alps a challenging rock formation was encountered. The mother rock mass is a schist rich in sericite and quartzite, with a thin lamination, but the intercalation of a weaker facies at the tunnel face caused an unexpected anisotropic behaviour of the tunnel section. In detail, the section showed an anisotropic deformation path both during the...