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drainage divide [′drān·ij də‚vīd] (geology) The border of a drainage basin. The boundary separating adjacent drainage basins. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The limits of a given catchment area are the heights of land—often called drainage divides, or watersheds—separating it from neighboring drainage systems. It has previously been recorded from numerous caves along the Blue River drainage in Crawford, Harrison, Washington and Orange Counties (Shear 1972; Hoffman & Lewis 1997) and is known to have crossed the drainage divide eastward into the Buck Creek drainage (Lewis 2000). The limits of a given catchment area are the heights of land—often called drainage divides, or watersheds—separating it from neighboring drainage systems. |
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