In the present invention, commercially available white clay (WC), which is quite uniform in texture and appearance, is chosen. This soil is subjected to various laboratory tests for its mineralogical, chemical and physical characterization. Then, sedimentation tests were conducted on this soil in different settling environment by altering pore-fluid chemistry (i.e. altering electrolyte concentration). Simultaneously, sediments were also obtained by boiling the soil slurries exhibiting similar compositions as that used in the sedimentation tests. The fabric of the sediments obtained from these two processes is examined by employing Mercury Intrusion Porosimetry (MIP).
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