Ice Complex deposits (locally known as the Buchchagy Ice
Complex) are exposed at both coasts of the East Siberian Dmitry Laptev
Strait and preserved below the Yedoma Ice Complex that formed during MIS3
and MIS2 (Marine Isotope Stage) and lateglacial-Holocene thermokarst
deposits (MIS1). Radioisotope disequilibria (230Th/U) of peaty horizons
date the Buchchagy Ice Complex deposition to 126 +16/-13 kyr and 117
+19/-14 kyr until 98 ±5 kyr and 89 ±5 kyr. The deposit is characterised
by poorly-sorted medium-to-coarse silts with cryogenic structures of
horizontal ice bands, lens-like, and lens-like reticulated segregation
ice. Two peaty horizons within the Buchchagy Ice Complex and syngenetic
ice wedges (2 to 4 m wide, up to 10 m high) are striking. The isotopic
composition (δ18O, δD) of Buchchagy ice-wedge ice indicates winter
conditions colder than during the MIS3 interstadial and warmer than
during MIS2 stadial, and similar atmospheric winter moisture sources as
during the MIS2 stadial. Buchchagy Ice Complex pol