Review article

The article proposes a comprehensive approach to determining the physical and filtration-compression parameters of oceanic silts of the deep-water base of the mining complex. The basis for their calculation is laboratory methods and the results of testing soil samples in a hydro-compression device, including the following: values of sample settlement at specified time and water movement velocities in samples; filtration, compression and consolidation curves. The filtration, consolidation, and relative total compressibility coefficients obtained by statistical processing of the test results are supposed to be used to evaluate base sediments using the univariate filtration consolidation model.