单词 | continental divide |
例句 | By midmorning they were within Oakwald Forest, the wood that surrounded Endovier and served as a continental divide between the “civilized” countries of the East and the uncharted lands of the West. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Ben did not understand why his mother, his sister, and his friends had to bleed, hurt, and cramp; the separateness was an abyss, a continental divide that kept them apart. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You listen to me, Isaiah Thornton. I hate that we have to split our child in half like the continental divide.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Both Howelsen Hill and Steamboat boasted at or near 100% of their trails open, the four local Nordic centers groomed daily, and snowmobilers zipped around the forest on the continental divide. Land of 100 Olympians: Why Steamboat Springs is a winter sports mecca 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The low-key vibe at Bluebird is the polar opposite of the scene at Steamboat, which lies about 27 miles northwest over the continental divide on Rabbit Ears Pass. Northwest Colorado is home to a ski area without chairlifts 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z So far, however, the prolific fish have mostly stopped short of the Great Lakes, blocked by the subtle ridge of a continental divide that circles the lakes' southern and western shores. Inside the race to build a $1.2 billion fish barricade 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Positioned high up on the craggy, wind-whipped continental divide in central Colorado, the mountain is relatively well-positioned to endure a warmer, shorter winter season. Going beyond ‘green,’ activism new standard in ski industry 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z But imports, such as Colorado River water pumped over the continental divide and down to the Front Range, can in many cases be completely used up. Colorado to reuse water for drinking, creating new supply 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z In late 2020, Coloradans voted by a single percentage point for the reintroduction of gray wolves in the state — but only west of the continental divide. Opinion | If only city dwellers who love gray wolves knew what it’s like to live among apex predators 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The nation’s third-largest city grew from a remarkable geographical quirk, a small, swampy dip in a continental divide that separates two vast watersheds: the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Basin. A battle between a great city and a great lake 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z They continue to inhabit 17 U.S. states and are common in Montana west of the continental divide and south of U.S.Interstate 90. Gone a century, Pacific martens returned to central Montana 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z In his two terms as president, Barack Obama, Trump's predecessor, pursued a clever countervailing strategy, seeking to split Beijing's potential world island economically at its continental divide in the Ural Mountains. While America was sleeping 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Now the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission needs to craft a plan to bring the wolves back to regions west of the continental divide by the end of 2023. Gray wolves win in historic Colorado election 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Conservationists argue that true recovery means linking bears in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem to bear inhabiting the so-called northern continental divide ecosystem, along the US border with Canada. US court upholds federal protections for Yellowstone's grizzly bears 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The fatal neurological disease was unknown west of the continental divide until the spring of 2019, when a single white-tailed deer in Libby tested positive for the disease. Smuggled elk poses a mystery for Montana wildlife officials 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z There currently are only four such units currently located west of the continental divide. Nevada touts Reno as best place for new Air Force squadron 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Once inside, the forest is a dark and dripping place at ground level, its perspectives shifting spookily with the passage of the mists across the rise of the continental divide. Head in the clouds: the woman scaling fresh climate change heights 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z They note that the pipeline crosses crucial watersheds that flow both into the New River and the Roanoke River, on either side of the eastern continental divide. Citizen group monitors for possible environmental violations 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Venerated simply as “the Winds” by locals, this strapping sub-range of the northern Rockies is set along the continental divide and stretches across portions of both the Bridger-Teton and Shoshone national forests. The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Poverty Creek is a meandering stream, edged by wetlands and shaded by Appalachian hardwood, that flows southwest from the continental divide just outside of Blacksburg, Virginia. What We Think About When We Run 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Some even see a “continental divide” in Latin America between countries with populist, left-leaning leaders and governments adopting a more pro-market stance. Long in charge, leftist leaders struggle across South America 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Indeed, at the moment there is a stunning continental divide in the NHL and the NBA — most of the good teams are in the West, most of the not-so-good teams are in the East. Chad: Couch Slouch: In the NBA and NHL, the West is best 2013-12-08T23:27:00Z Ellsworth is neatly settled in a subglacial valley near the continental divide, where the overlying ice moves at its slowest. Hunt for Life under Antarctic Ice Heats Up 2012-11-21T17:15:00.317Z Glacier national park, located in the Rocky Mountains of Montana, is home to 26 glaciers, a world-famous scenic drive, a healthy wolf and grizzly population, and a rare triple continental divide. The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1810 David Thompson of the North-west company crossed the continental divide by the Athabasca Pass in latitude 52° 25′. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z On the lowlands north of the continental divide and extending to the Gulf of Mexico are three major types of vegetation—tropical rainforest, arid tropical scrub forest, and savanna. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z On the more or less isolated mountain ranges of Montana east of the continental divide the vagrans shrew is somewhat smaller still. Speciation of the Wandering Shrew 2011-12-22T03:00:30.143Z Eighty-seven-thousand customers east of the continental divide and north of Denver were without power, public utility company Xcel Energy, Inc. said in a statement. Snowstorm blankets Denver area just days after balmy weather 2011-10-26T18:22:22Z Atlantic Creek, tributary to the Yellowstone, and Pacific Creek, tributary to the Snake, both rise in the same marshy meadow on the continental divide. Fly Fishing in Wonderland 2011-09-01T02:00:22.230Z A few miles' easy grade and we were at the summit of Yellowhead Pass, the continental divide. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z Individuals from La Princesa near the continental divide in Oaxaca show the same variation in body proportions and development of the tarsal fold. A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico 2011-12-31T03:00:17.400Z The small size might be an adaptation to the lesser precipitation and harsher continental climate east of the continental divide in Montana. Speciation of the Wandering Shrew 2011-12-22T03:00:30.143Z From this low continental divide the land slopes gently both to the north and south. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z This railway strikes almost due west from Denver and crosses the continental divide at an altitude of over two miles. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The next day's journey took them up the north fork of Healy Creek, and they camped a few miles from Simpson Pass, crossing the continental divide from Alberta into British Columbia the following morning. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z To the north towered the higher forested ranges whence came the cañon—the continental divide, rugged crests leaping at the sky. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Here are the hills, the backbone or "continental divide," averaging over 300 feet high but rising to much higher points, which connects the Cordilleras of South with the Sierras of North America. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise The Stony Mountains form a portion of the continental divide which parts the waters flowing to the Pacific from those that find their way to the Atlantic. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The whole state lies on the south-western exposure of a great roof whose crest, along the continental divide in western New Mexico, pitches southward. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Their route to the mountain from Banff had been by a branch of Healy Creek to the continental divide and along this high plateau to Simpson valley; they returned by way of the Spray. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z It mattered nothing to him that he might be days upon this road; it mattered nothing that he was about to negotiate the continental divide afoot. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z Whenever the storm let up, the planes, with only the pilots and the mail aboard, dashed across the continental divide, but for more than a week, Jane and her companions remained snowbound at Cheyenne. Jane Stewardess of the Air Lines Then they were in the air again, climbing once more to get above the continental divide and after that came the descent to Cheyenne. Janet Hardy in Radio City West of the continental divide were the great warlike tribes of Utes extending to the Sierra Nevadas, 15,000 free-born American savages to whose necks the galling yoke of civilization was to be adjusted. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter Remarks.—The type locality of G. aquilonaris is the small village of Barranca at the bottom of the valley of the Río Urique, several miles south and west of the continental divide. A New Snake of the Genus Geophis From Chihuahua, Mexico For all the region between the Mississippi and the continental divide of the Rockies, the Texas ports, chiefly Galveston, will be the natural outlets to the sea. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Eleven topographical and climatic divisions are recognized by the United States Weather Bureau within its borders, including the several parks, the continental divide, and various river valleys. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" This area includes the arid basin of the Green River and its major tributaries and the arid Red Desert along the continental divide in Sweetwater County. Subspeciation in the Meadow Mouse, Microtus montanus, in Wyoming and Colorado Here, at the continental divide and at the halfway point of her journey, the journal ends, on June 26th, or the seventy-fourth day out. Across the Plains to California in 1852 Journal of Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell Pinart states, however, that certain tribes on both sides of the continental divide have traditions pointing toward the ancient grave builders as their ancestors. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 Our whole grade climb 75 for the continental divide is right here, packed into these few miles. The Mountain Divide Large game is still very abundant west of the continental divide. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Where the mountain chains of North America have been flung up into a continental divide, the country in many of its aspects is still terrible. Whispering Smith And it continues to contribute, through its stirring annals, to the tragic history of the continental divide. Nan of Music Mountain At the continental divide the Culebra Cut is almost five hundred feet deep and more than a half mile wide at the top. Birdseye Views of Far Lands The Middle Fork rises in a group of glaciers high under the continental divide and descends four giant steps, a lake upon each step, to two greater lakes of noble aspect in the valley bottom. The Book of the National Parks In 1888 the Colorado Midland started from Colorado Springs westward, up the Ute Pass, through the South Park to Leadville, and thence over the continental divide to Aspen and Glenwood Springs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" These authors remarked also that P. f. dextra occurs in the mountains east of the continental divide in New Mexico and western Texas south through eastern México to Chiapas. Birds from Coahuila, Mexico In the villages of Red Cliff and Glenwood, both beyond the continental divide, he was the same sprightly citizen, making himself very much at home. Birds of the Rockies Is interrupted by the continental divide in eastern Arizona and west New Mexico and divided according to conditions of humidity into an eastern or Austroriparian and western or lower Sonoran area. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology The continental divide crosses the southwestern corner over the lofty Madison Plateau and the ridge south of Yellowstone Lake. The Book of the National Parks The trail led from the Missouri across the state of Kansas to the Platte River, then followed this long stream to its head at South Pass on the continental divide. The Western United States A Geographical Reader They were now approaching the continental divide, the scenery moment by moment growing in sublimity and grandeur. At the Time Appointed Here also dwelt the rock wren, a little bird that was new to me and that I had not found in the latitude of Colorado Springs either east or west of the continental divide. Birds of the Rockies Going over the continental divide while the snow makes a dog team useful. Burned Bridges Either he leaves the railroad at Glacier Park on the east side of the continental divide or at Belton on the west side. The Book of the National Parks The water is very muddy and not at all like the clear mountain streams, far away upon the continental divide, which unite to form the river. The Western United States A Geographical Reader —In northern British Columbia, north of Iskoot Lake, there lies a tremendous region, extending to the Arctic Ocean, and comprehending the whole area between the Rocky Mountain continental divide and the waters of the Pacific. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The continental divide is in the eastern margin of the region. Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Ere long, however, it was ascertained that the crest of the Andes did not actually coincide with the continental divide. Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors The overthrust edge cracked lengthwise, this time west of the continental divide all the way from the Canadian line southward nearly to Marias Pass. The Book of the National Parks Upon reaching the Pacific side of the continental divide the explorers were in doubt as to which way to proceed. The Western United States A Geographical Reader In the background, connecting all, are more distant mountains flecked with snow, the continental divide. The Book of the National Parks The Front Range, carrying the continental divide, is a gnarled and jagged rampart of snow-splashed granite facing the eastern plains, from which its grim summits may be seen for many miles. The Book of the National Parks It straddles the continental divide, which bisects it lengthwise, north and south. The Book of the National Parks Glacier National Park hangs down from the Canadian boundary-line in northwestern Montana, where it straddles the continental divide. The Book of the National Parks Near the present city of Missoula the party divided, Captain Lewis going up Hell Gate River and crossing the continental divide to examine the country lying north of the Missouri. The Western United States A Geographical Reader From Specimen Mountain in the far northwest, a spill of lava, now the haunt of mountain sheep, the continental divide southward piles climax upon climax. The Book of the National Parks As a result of falling temperature, the mountains became covered, except their higher summits and the continental divide, with glaciers. The Book of the National Parks Ascend the precipitous east side by the Flattop Trail, for instance, and notice particularly the broad, rolling level of the continental divide. The Book of the National Parks Communication between the east and west sides within the park is only by trail across passes over the continental divide. The Book of the National Parks In southwestern Wyoming the continental divide, known as the Great Divide mesa, though more than a mile above the sea, is but a continuation of the long, gentle slope of the Great Plains. The Western United States A Geographical Reader Longs Peak is directly connected with the continental divide by a series of jagged cliffs. The Book of the National Parks The Yellowstone National Park is situated upon the continental divide in northwestern Wyoming. The Western United States A Geographical Reader The Yellowstone Lake is a large body of water situated almost upon the continental divide. The Western United States A Geographical Reader You have crossed the continental divide and emerged upon a lofty abutment just west of it. The Book of the National Parks It had been supposed that after once crossing the continental divide it would be an easy matter to embark upon some stream and float down to the Pacific Ocean. The Western United States A Geographical Reader |
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