The line of high ground that separates the oceanic drainage basins of a continent; the river systems of a continent on opposite sides of a continental divide flow toward different oceans.
the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges)
a line of elevated terrain which forms aborder between two drainage basins such that water falling on one side of the line eventually travels to one ocean ,and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the opposite side of the continent
a line of elevated terrain which forms a border between two
a topographic feature separating streams that flow towards
A divide separating streams that flow west towards the Pacific Ocean or east towards the Atlantic.
The elevated area that occurs on a continent that divides continental scale drainage basins.
A major drainage divide separating the drainage to one ocean from another. In the North Country, the Laurentian Divide separates the streams which flow to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence River, from those which flow north to Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean.
Continental Divide is a 1981 American romantic comedy. It was directed by Michael Apted from an original screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and produced by Steven Spielberg and stars John Belushi and Blair Brown.
