“…the south coast of Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island, represents one of the best-studied Quaternary permafrost sites in northeast Siberia. To reconstruct the environmental dynamics of west Beringia since the mid-Pleistocene, extensive studies of the exposed frozen sediments and ground ice have been carried out (Arkhangelov et al, 1996;Kunitsky, 1996;Meyer et al, 2002b;Schirrmeister et al, 2002aSchirrmeister et al, , 2011bAndreev et al, 590 T. Opel et al: Ground-ice stable isotopes and cryostratigraphy reflect late Quaternary palaeoclimate Tumskoy, 2012;Wetterich et al, , 2014. In addition, the permafrost exposures of the Oyogos Yar mainland coast at the south shore of the Dmitry Laptev Strait have been studied, but less extensively (Ivanov, 1972;Gravis, 1978;Konishchev and Kolesnikov, 1981;Kaplina and Lozhkin, 1984;Tomirdiaro, 1984;Nagaoka et al, 1995;Kienast et al, 2011;Opel et al, 2011;Schirrmeister et al, 2011b;Rudaya et al, 2015, and references therein).…”