“…Later, the glaciers retreated rapidly (Kaldal and Víkingssson, 1990;Andrews et al, 2000;Norðdahl and Einarsson, 2001;Geirsdóttir et al, 2002Geirsdóttir et al, , 2009Larsen et al, 2012). By 10.2 ka the centre and north of Iceland was already deglaciated (Stötter et al, 1999;Caseldine et al, 2003). Finally, by 8.7 ka the IIS had definitively disappeared and the extent of the glaciers was similar to or less than at present (Pétursson et al, 2015).…”