continental divide wyoming Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/continental-divide-wyoming Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:10:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Understanding the Yellowstone Continental Divide http://toursmaps.com/understanding-yellowstone-continental-divide.html http://toursmaps.com/understanding-yellowstone-continental-divide.html#respond Wed, 29 Jun 2016 01:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=207024 Driving between Old Faithful and West Thumb, you twice pass signs identifying the Continental Divide. This makes it dicult to understand the concept of the divide or to visualize where the water is going. Maps show the Continental Divide as a thin line crossing irregularly from the park’s western boundary to leave the park near the southeast corner. What does this line represent? A divide is a geographer’s term for the topographic boundary between adjacent drainage basins or watersheds. Runoff from precipitation that falls on one side of the divide will find its way into one stream system; on the

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