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	Continental divide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A continental divide is a line of elevated terrain which forms a border between two watersheds such that water falling on one side of the line eventually travels to one ocean or body of water, and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the opposite side of the continent.
		It is similarly difficult to distinguish Europe and Asia's continental divides because of the large number of distinct bodies of water into which their rainfall drains (for example, the Mediterranean Sea and its various lobes, the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Arctic Ocean and the Black Sea with Europe).
		Continental Divide is also the title of a 1981 movie starring John Belushi and Blair Brown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Continental_divide

	Continental divide - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
		A continental divide is a line of elevated terrain which forms a border between two watersheds such that water falling on one side of the line eventually travels to one ocean or body of water, and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the opposite side of the continent.
		It is similarly difficult to distinguish Europe and Asia's continental divides because of the large number of distinct bodies of water into which their rainfall drains (for example, the Mediterranean Sea and its various lobes, the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Arctic Ocean and the Black Sea with Europe).
		Continental Divide is also the title of a 1981 movie starring John Belushi and Blair Brown.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /continental_divide.htm (507 words)

	Eastern Continental Divide GPS Maps
		Water is diverted from Triple Divide Peak into the Pacific-bound Columbia basin, the Gulf of Mexico-bound Missouri basin, and the Hudson Bay-bound Saskatchewan and Nelson drainages.
		However, the number and position of continental divides is strongly affected by climatic and tectonic forces, which can raise mountain ranges and alter drainage patterns.
		Each of these three outlets drained water from glacial Lake Agassiz at different times, depending upon which paths were obstructed by glacial advances, the degree of isostatic rebound related to crustal adjustments from glacial and water loading on the earth’s crust, and the depth of water in Lake Agassiz.
	www.gpsinformation.org /jack/Divide/Divide.html (2802 words)

	deseretnews.com The great Divide: Time to rewrite river law?
		Upper and lower basins each are entitled to 7.5 million acre-feet of water per year (with several complicating factors).
		Most years, the river may not have the 15 million acre-feet envisioned by the compact as being divided between the basins.
		Drought has been shrinking or drying reservoirs throughout the West for so many years that it has rekindled a debate over the basic water rules of the region.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595082397,00.html (2802 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
		Annex 2001 would set in stone practices for limiting use of Great Lakes water to those inside its watershed basin, which is the boundary separating the direction water flows.
		The Great Lakes hold enough water to blanket the entire North American continent from Alaska to Panama in a pool three feet deep.
		It can determine economic development and sprawl, as the region's population shifts year by year to the wrong side of the great divide.
	www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2004/12/12/news/top_news/71deeaff7519af4f86256f680006ab9f.txt (1751 words)

	Continental Divide Bemidji Visitors & Convention Bureau - VCB Bemidji, Minnesota
		Depending on the lie of the continental divides, Minnesota waters flow either to Hudson Bay, the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean.
		The water eventually flows into Hudson Bay, 1,900 miles away from the Northern Continental Divide located here.
		They claim the source to be the Continental Divide, 15 miles north of Bemidji, Minnesota.
	www.visitbemidji.com /location/contdiv.html (290 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
		Annex 2001 would set in stone practices for limiting use of Great Lakes water to those inside its watershed basin, which is the boundary separating the direction water flows.
		This water is lost to the vast underground aquifers that provide up to 40 percent of the lake's annual resupply.
		George Kuper, president of the Council of Great Lakes Industries, said Annex 2001 is a "fatally flawed document" that should be scrapped and redrawn from scratch.
	www.thetimesonline.com /articles/2004/12/12/news/top_news/71deeaff7519af4f86256f680006ab9f.txt (290 words)

	Chicago's Continental Divide
		Equally important is the fact that, paralleling the lake shore and not far from it, there is a continental divide: a ridge which, although low and inconspicuous, separates two vast watersheds.
		On the other side of this divide, water drains toward the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers and thence down the Illinois river to the Mississippi which empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
		" This was feasible only because of the low continental divide between the watersheds of the Chicago and the Calumet river systems and that of the DesPlaines river.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /natbltn/500-599/nb571.htm (670 words)

	The Continental Divide
		A divide is a geographer's term for the topographic boundary between adjacent drainage basins or watersheds.
		The Continental Divide, (also known as the Great Divide) is the main watershed boundary of the North American continent.
		This makes it difficult to understand the concept of the divide or to visualize where the water is going.
	www.yellowstonetreasures.com /continental_divide.htm (371 words)

	Continental Divide
		It is an unnoticed continental divide where the waters of the Arctic drainage pass into the Upper Bald Hill Creek while the Juanita water goes south into the James and the Gulf of Mexico.
		Located on the northeast edge of Lake Juanita is an old water course that is connected with Stony Lake on Section 15‑147‑63.
	www.webfamilytree.com /continental_divide.htm (65 words)

	Travel by GPS Map of the Eastern Continental Divide in North Carolina
		To the east and south of the divide, water flow to the Atlantic Ocean.
		On the north and west sides of the divide, water flows to the Gulf of Mexico via the watershed claimed by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
		The divide is aligned in a general southwest to northeast direction following the course of the Appalachian Mountains.
	www.travelbygps.com /guides/ECD/ecd.php (549 words)

	Journey to the Outer Banks
		but the Eastern Continental Divide marked where water ran off to Atlantic and where it went to the Gulf of Mexico.There are also other great divides, which designate the watersheds of the St. Lawerence Seaway, and where water flows north to the Hudson Bay, Labrador Sea and the Beaufort Sea.
		It seems the Continental Divide in New Mexico, which I had crossed several times, marked the runoff between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans...
		Just east of Asheville, we crossed over the Eastern Continental Divide, at an elevation of 2,700 or so feet.
	www.burningclam.com /obx/obx12.html (1162 words)

	Airborne Cycles USA - Custom Bikes Online
		The route crosses the divide many times and the climbing is longer with very steep sections on some of the roads.
		The Great Basin in Wyoming and New Mexico both call for long mileage days and carrying food and water for several days at a time.
		The route cuts through a corner of the Tetons before heading east up over the divide again and then down the west side of the Wind River range.
	www.airborne.net /eready/janette/team/greatd03.asp (1162 words)

	July 2002 - Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho
		Now, when you think of the Continental Divide, you think of a line that separates the continent - all the water that falls to the west of it flows west to the Pacific, and all the water that falls east of it flows east towards the Atlantic (or the Gulf of Mexico).
		It was great to meet her husband Arlo, and her children Arik and Anna.
		It was an oasis, right on the outside edge of the basin, with the first trees and grass we had seen in several days.
	scasagrande.tripod.com /CoWyId (1162 words)

	Muss My Hair
		The Continental Divide is the boundary that seperates the water (streams, rivers, etc.) that eventually goes west to the Pacific and the water that goes east to the Gulf of Mexico or the Hudson Bay.
		Another cool thing Wyoming locals told me about the Great Divide is Two Oceans Lake in Wyoming, so named because the two stream outlets at either end of the lake were on different sides of the great divide, thus going to different oceans eventually.
		Meanwhile, my redder-haired half has clued me in on The Great Basin, which is a catch-all name for a series of watersheds that, yep, don't outlet to any ocean.
	www.mussmyhair.com (1162 words)

	Statewide Data Inventory - Green River/Great Divide Basin Introduction
		The Great Divide portion of this hydrologic unit is a closed basin of 3,959 square miles to the east.
		This is of great concern given that downstream states such as California and Nevada thirst for additional water supplies.
		The Green River basin is a high priority region in Wyoming water planning initiatives.
	waterplan.state.wy.us /sdi/GG/GG-over.html (1162 words)

	The Colorado River District: a 15-county organization that protects Western Colorado's water
		Water from the Lost Man Canal, joined by the Roaring Fork River, diverts through the Grizzly Tunnel, on its way to Grizzly Reservoir and transport across the Contintental Divide to Twin Lakes Reservoir in Lake County.
		Grizzly Reservoir feeds the Twin Lakes Tunnel and water flows to the eastern side of the Continental Divide.
		The goal of the collaborative effort is to put to best use 3,000 acre-feet of water that Twin Lakes makes available every year to the Roaring Fork as part of an operating agreement to bolster the river.
	www.crwcd.gov (883 words)

	Water music - Händel
		The present recording does not divide the Water Music into the three suites that later editors have arranged largely from a study of the principal sources and from the instruments apparently involved.
		Precisely how much of the music performed was by Handel and how much of it now preserved in the three suites known as the Water Music is not clear.
		The Water Music and the Music for the Royal Fireworks mark two chronological extremes of Handel's career in London.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/8762/Musica/WaterMusic.htm (456 words)

	H2O - The Mystery, Art, and Science of Water: Facts
		"a firmament in the midst of the waters to divide the waters"
		Ninety-seven percent of the water on the planet is in the form of salt water.
		Water is an agent in erosion of the land
	witcombe.sbc.edu /water/waterfacts.html (456 words)

	Appendix 1 - Glossary of Terms
		GROUND WATER DIVIDE — The uppermost boundary of a ground water basin.
		The ground water in a confined aquifer is under pressure that is significantly greater than that existing in the atmosphere.
		Water can be pumped down the pipe and it passes out the check valve at the bottom and washes the sand up the hole to the ground surface.
	wlapwww.gov.bc.ca /wat/gws/gwbc/appendices/glossary.html (3535 words)

	Water-Jacket Liners
		Ports divide the water space into lower and upper spaces, which are connected by vertical passages between the ports.
		The water jacket is formed by the inner and outer walls of the liner.
		The liner shown in figure 3-12 is a brazed-on jacket type with a separate water jacket brazed onto the cylinder liner.
	www.tpub.com /engine3/en3-27.htm (315 words)

	Oak Park Continental Divide page
		On the west side of our divide, waters flow to the Des Plaines River in River Forest, down to meet the Illinois River near Joliet, to the Mississippi, and finally on to the Gulf of Mexico.
		In fact the United States land area is divided into several distinct basins flowing, respectively, into the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico, Canada's Hudson Bay, and of course the Great Lakes which drain into the St. Lawrence River and hence into the Atlantic.
		The lines separating each of these great basins is a continental divide and one of these continental divides runs right through the middle of Oak Park.
	www.oprf.com /divide (240 words)

	winogradsky column
		The rest of the tube is filled with water from the lake or river, and the tube is capped and placed near a window with supplementary strip lights.
		Most of the water column above the photosynthetic bacteria is coloured bright red by a large population of purple non-sulphur bacteria.
		These are aerobic organisms which use organic substrates, but are unusual because as the bacterial cells divide they synthesize a rigid tubular sheath from which individual cells can escape and swim away to establish new colonies.
	helios.bto.ed.ac.uk /bto/microbes/winograd.htm (240 words)

	BBC NEWS UK Water pressure may be future woe
		He did not believe water supply problems saw a "north-south divide", rather that various parts of the UK were more affected than others.
		Water UK, the body representing water companies, says a number of factors are set to put pressure on supplies.
		Water firms are also working with the public to help conserve valuable supplies, he added.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/uk/4649511.stm (839 words)

	Water Keeper
		Divide the likely attorney�s �commissions� among Water Keeper�s 11-firm legal dream team, and Kennedy�s own two-partner law office could have a $200 million payday.
		In a stunning blow to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.�s personal jihad against the U.S. pork industry, a federal judge in Tampa has dismissed a lawsuit brought against pork producer Smithfield Foods by lawyers representing Kennedy and his organization, the Water Keeper Alliance.
		In addition to these lawyers� deep pockets, the Waterkeeper Alliance stays afloat through foundation support, individual wealthy donors, celebrity ski events at the Vail resort, and a for-profit company called Tear of the Clouds LLC, which sells Keeper Springs bottled water.
	www.propertyrightsresearch.org /water_keeper.htm (839 words)

	Turkish - Syrian - Iraqi dispute over water
		The Turkish officials are not willing to divide the water of the Digla and the Euphrates rivers before the completion of the projects in the southeast of Anatol.
		The Syrians and the Iraqis are united in their request for a fair distribution of water, Baghdad asks for discussing the project of the Dam of Atatork in order to increase the water it receives.
		The Al Ghab and Peace Pipeline projects will decrease the water quotas of Syria and Iraq greatly and the water available for the two countries will not be enough for irrigation and power generation projects.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/971208/1997120807.html (839 words)

	AMU Reprints - Comics and Editorial Cartoons From Universal Press Syndicate - Clear Blue Water
		In the Torres house, clear blue water is the gulf of personal experience that Eve and Manny cross each day to make their lives work.
		The phrase "clear blue water," explains author Karen Montague-Reyes, comes from the world of politics.
		It describes the ideological divide between two political parties.
	www.amureprints.com /documentation/clearbluewater.htm (138 words)

	Continental Divide Trail Alert
		3) The trail segment has long sections 15 miles or more along the Continental Divide above timberline with no water available and no available descent routes in case of bad weather.
		The Congressional legislation establishing the Continental Divide Trail does not require the trail to actually coincide with the Divide.
		The Copper Mountain to Rollins Pass section of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT), approved by the Forest Service, has significant safety, ecosystem fragmentation and financial issues.
	www.rmc.sierraclub.org /pandp/1998-04/cdtalert.htm (407 words)

	MSN Encarta - Wyoming (state)
		Straddling the Continental Divide, Wyoming is a source area for the waters of the four main drainage systems of the western United States: the Missouri-Mississippi; the Interior, or Great Basin; the Columbia; and the Colorado.
		Water in the Great Divide Basin flows to a series of saltflats and ponds in an area known as the Chain-of-Lakes, not to the Atlantic or Pacific oceans.
		The basins are drained northward by the Bighorn River, eastward by the North Platte River, and southward by the Green River.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575281/Wyoming_(state).html (407 words)

	Divide Loop
		Divide Loop w/ Variations - Tonto National Forest
		Another 75 yards brings you to the signed junction with the Divide Trail (#23) which is also the Arizona Trail (8 miles), turn left onto the Divide Trail.
		After passing the ridge he trail drops down steeply through an oak and alligator juniper forest until arriving at Hopi Spring, a piped spring and trough (water was available each time the author has been here, though David Mazel's book suggests it only flows during rainy periods).
	www.toddshikingguide.com /Hikes/Arizona/Tonto/Mazatzal2.htm (407 words)

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