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weathered to residual soil, 500-1000 m/s. Note th at an empirical upper limit for the velocity of 2000 m/s is often used in practice to define geologic materials that can be ripped without difficulty. 2.4 Slaking Since rocks change properties with time, a problem of interest is to assess their weatherability or its inverse their durability.

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