Development of industries and increasing population demand civil engineering projects of various types and sizes to be looated along the ooastal aaaas where extremely soft marine sedirnents are encountered. These sediments present settlement and stability problems, among others, and consequently, cost increase and schedule delay are resulted.Insulfident understanding of the basic nature of the soft formations dulling design and construction phases result in catastrophicfailures all too often. In order to provide safe and economic solutions to these problems, utilization of various related disciplines should be made for analyses. However, this paper will primarily rely in portions of paleoclimatology, sedimentology, and soil mechanics to define the problems and to provide basic understanding of the sediment, and the directions and methodology for the analyses.