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The difficulty about regarding a rough surface as an assembly of asperities is perhaps that facing a friend who works at the Royal Geographical Society on cataloguing the Himalayas: is she to accept that the summit reached by the 1973 Ruritanian expedition is actually a separate mountain ? Of course it was summit — those concerned were all honourable climbers — but shouldn’t it really be counted as a subsidiary of K10 ? If we walk along this connecting ridge, how far must we descend to make it a separate mountain ?
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Greenwood, J.A. (1992). Problems with Surface Roughness. In: Singer, I.L., Pollock, H.M. (eds) Fundamentals of Friction: Macroscopic and Microscopic Processes. NATO ASI Series, vol 220. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2811-7_4
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