**2. Glaciations**

The last glacial period began about 110,000 years ago and ended 10,000 years ago. A model of the deglaciation history for our area is given in [34]. The glaciations that occurred during this glacial period covered many areas of the Northern Hemisphere. The extent of the Eurasian Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has been long debated in the literature. Researchers [35] argue for a

highly asynchronous ice sheet with regional differences in the age of maximum ice-sheet positions. However, in this paper we use the LGM (~20,000 BP) reconstruction of [36], which suggests the SW Barents Sea was glaciated from 24,000 to 18,000 BP. In the following calculations, we assume the Earth reached isostatic equilibrium during this period.
