Sentence examples for a drainage divide from inspiring English sources

The boundary between drainage basins is a drainage divide: all the precipitation on opposite sides of a drainage divide will flow into different drainage basins.

The land rises from west to east, the eastern boundary forming a drainage divide.

The Annamese Cordillera forms a drainage divide, with rivers to the east flowing to the South China Sea and those to the west to the Mekong River.

To better quantify these findings, I derive and present a new analytical expression for the migration velocity of an escarpment once it has become a drainage divide.

River Blackwater, Irish An Abhainn Mhór, river in Northern Ireland, rising in the uplands near the Dungannon Fermanagh district boundaries and fed by a network of small streams northeast of a drainage divide near Fivemiletown.

The top of Lee Mountain forms a drainage divide between the creek's watershed and another watershed.

In addition to this vertical isolation, the presence of an internal drainage divide for Río Mante and Río Choy likely serves as a division for populations from the northern and southern El Abra caves, respectively [ 5].

This low rate of retreat is, however, consistent with numerical landscape evolution models where the escarpment is pinned at an inland drainage divide.

Here, we present new geomorphic observations in the structural context of the eastern Sichuan Basin, namely the Eastern Sichuan fold belt, and identify an important drainage divide along the "midline" of this arc-shape fold belt.

This normal fault is embedded in a regionally subsiding margin where actively uplifting segments lead to a straightened, pinned drainage divide, whereas, relatively inactive segments permit divide migration into the footwall block.

It is defined as the length of flow path projected to the horizontal of non-channel flow from a point on the drainage divide to a point on the adjacent stream channel (Gardiner 1975).