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With the advance of knowledge about the sequence of conditions affecting glaciers, it has come to be generally recognised that for any given district the factor of supreme importance is temperature, a very moderate change in the average annual temperature being sufficient to transform a temperate district completely, and to furnish it with snowfields and mountain glaciers.
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Hobbs, W.H. (1973). The Cycle of Glaciation. In: Derbyshire, E. (eds) Climatic Geomorphology. The Geographical Readings Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15508-8_5
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