quot;MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt">quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black">quot;Times New Roman">Early Holocene thick soft clay is distributed around quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />quot;on">quot;on">Erhai quot;on">Lake. The results of engineering property tests indicate that the soft clay on the east bank of quot;on">quot;on">Erhai quot;on">Lake has such engineering properties as a high water content, a high porosity ratio, high compressibility, low strength and high plasticity. The phenomenon of over-consolidation is very remarkable. The statistic analysis of physical-mechanical index parameters of soft clay indicates that: the variability coefficient of the mechanical index is high while the variability coefficient of the physical index is lowquot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-ascii-font-family: ’Times New Roman’; mso-hansi-font-family: ’Times New Roman’">，quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: black">quot;Times New Roman">and the correlations between various physical indices and between the physical index and mechanical index are apparent. Knowledge of the relation between all kinds of indices of various engineering properties of soft clay is not only helpful to revealing the engineering properties and formation mechanism of soft clay, but also instructs us to choose relative measures to solve the engineering problems of soft clay.quot;urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
