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continental divide

[¦känt·ən¦ent·əl di′vīd]
(geology)
A drainage divide of a continent, separating streams that flow in opposite directions; for example, the divide in North America that separates watersheds of the Pacific Ocean from those of the Atlantic Ocean.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Evangelicalism as a religious phenomenon (experience, belief, morals, practice, commitment) among core adherents does not vary significantly across the continental divide.
But for all the interwoven cunning of the narrative and Edgar's empathic consideration for the task at hand, "Continental Divide" voices its concerns without really dramatizing them and then leaves a highly variable American east for the most part stranded, with very little resembling actual characters to play.
However, the distance from the Amazon's mouth to the continental divide near the challenger is shorter, and the water doesn't flow year-round in the contender's upper reaches.
* On July 22, MSPVA chapter members had the opportunity to enjoy rafting down the Colorado River, just west of the Continental Divide. Divided between two rafts, the adventurers raced through the area's canyons and past cliffs.
It is a quintessential suburb of 35,000, where rolling farmland in the shadow of the Continental Divide is rapidly yielding to suburban sprawl and soccer fields.
Well-resolved works like Continental Divide, the 1994 video in which the artist literally "beats up on herself," sit next to negligible scraps: the black egg whites, for example.
We have been following the Continental Divide Trail from Canada to Mexico (see map on page 9).
Border-crossing is internalized in Butor's collection so that the split self now faces a continental divide when it looks into its own heart.
Imagine walking along the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, a route that draws a 3,100-mile line atop mountain ranges from Canada to Mexico.
It is a tour through time along the band of the Continental Divide and its foothills through New Mexico, Arizona, and a tiny part of Mexico.
The Rockies form the Continental Divide separating Pacific drainage from Atlantic (Gulf of Mexico) and Arctic drainage.
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