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Glaciers are enormous sheets of that move slowly over the land. They form when more snow falls in the winter than in the summer. Glaciers can form in high mountain because it is cold due to the . Continental glaciers form near the because it is cold due to the . As the snow becomes deeper, the squeezes the snow below into ice. Once the ice becomes 100 meters thick, it can . These huge sheets of ice acts as giant . They move rocks and . Once a glacier reaches the edges of a continent, it breaks off into .