GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A continental divide is a boundary that separates a continent’s river systems . Each river system feeds into a distinct ocean, bay, or sea. The Loveland Pass, pictured here, is a continental divide in Colorado that separates water flowing into the Atlantic and Pacific ocean basins.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Continental Divide is one of the most iconic and important mountain ranges in the Americas, dividing the continents in half and extending all the way from the Bering Strait and Strait Magellan. And lucky for us, the Continental Divide cuts right through Grand County, Colorado.

Detailed explanation-3: -A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not connected to the open sea.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most famous Continental Divide of the Americas is also called the Great Divide. It separates the watersheds of the Pacific Ocean from those of the Atlantic Ocean. It runs from Alaska, through western Canada along the crest of the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico.

Detailed explanation-5: -Many of the nation’s mightiest rivers begin as a trickle of water near the Continental Divide. The Columbia and Colorado rivers flow west to the Pacific Ocean, while the Missouri River, the Mississippi River, and the Rio Grande flow east from the Divide to the Atlantic Ocean.