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THE response of a temperate glacier to changes in its specific budget was theoretically examined in 1903 by S. Finsterwalder1. He limited himself to the plane problem, and I shall do the same. In 1958 Weertman2 urged forward the problem by introducing the perturbation method and the incidence of the changes in the superficial slope.
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LLIBOUTRY, L. Instability of Temperature Ice-sheets owing to a Feed-back Mechanism. Nature 203, 627–629 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203627a0
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