Evolution of soil pores and their characteristics in a siliceous and calcareous proglacial area

Soil chronosequences in Alpine areas have often been applied to trace physical, mineralogical and chemical soil properties over time. How the soil pore system of undisturbed soils evolves, however, has not yet been clarified. We therefore investigated two soil chronosequences in the Swiss Alps spanning a time period from a few decades up to the Early Holocene/Late Pleistocene. One soil sequence developed on siliceous parent material in the...