[blam]

This analysis does not consider that the land masses under the ice sheets would have been severly depressed/compressed and at the same time, land to the south would have been 'sticking-up', something like a see-saw. Most of the melt water went 'the-other-way.' (somewhere through the Scandanavian countries?) And, that's why the Black Sea water level was still depressed by 550ft in 5600BC. All that fresh water didn't go through there?

[Fedora]

This analysis does not consider that the land masses under the ice sheets would have been severly depressed/compressed and at the same time, land to the south would have been 'sticking-up', something like a see-saw.

True--at least in the absence of any other offsetting factors. Any other geologic events that may have also affected this, like for instance any major tectonic activity at the end of the Ice Age?

Most of the melt water went 'the-other-way.' (somewhere through the Scandanavian countries?) And, that's why the Black Sea water level was still depressed by 550ft in 5600BC. All that fresh water didn't go through there?

Interesting--I will have to think about that. What would the effect of glacial runoff have been on the rivers running into the Black Sea from its non-Mediterranean shores--Danube, Dnesst, Dnepr, Don? I'm thinking on analogy with what happened with the Mississippi River, Lake Agassiz, and Hudson Bay in North America and trying to visualize how that would apply to the Black Sea.