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GREAT DIVIDE [6 records]

Record 1 2017-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Parks and Botanical Gardens
OBS

Mission. The Great Divide Trail Association is dedicated to planning, designing, surveying, constructing and maintaining the Great Divide Trail in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. [The association's] goal is to obtain formal recognition and protection of the Great Divide Trail Corridor.

OBS

The Great Divide Trail Association is a Canadian not‐for‐profit corporation headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, responsible for maintaining, promoting and protecting the Great Divide Trail. The Great Divide Trail Association works with regional partners to coordinate trail improvements, maintenance and protection. [The association is] supported by members, volunteers and hikers who make the Great Divide Trail experience possible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Parcs et jardins botaniques

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
DEF

... the line in North America that separates the waters which flow into the Atlantic Ocean from those flowing into the Pacific.

CONT

The Great Divide... separates the watersheds of the Pacific Ocean from those of the Atlantic or Arctic Oceans. It runs from the Seward Peninsula in Alaska, through western Canada along the crest of the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico. From there, it follows the crest of Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental and extends to the tip of South America. It is crossed by the Panama Canal.

CONT

The highest snowfall amounts are expected along the Continental Divide. [Example approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.]

CONT

Cameron Lake, at the Continental Divide, receives an average of 152 cm (60 in) annually ...

OBS

North America has four continental divides : The Great Divide, also called the Continental Divide... The Northern Divide, or Laurentian Divide... The St. Lawrence Seaway Divide... The Eastern Continental Divide...

OBS

Continental Divide; Great Divide : terms officially approved by the Avalanche Bulletin Terminology Standardization Committee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
DEF

Ligne en Amérique du Nord qui sépare les eaux qui se déversent dans l'océan Atlantique de celles qui se déversent dans l'océan Pacifique.

CONT

D'importantes accumulations de neige sont prévues le long de la ligne continentale de partage des eaux. [Exemple entériné par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.]

OBS

ligne continentale de partage des eaux; ligne de partage des eaux : termes uniformisés par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie des bulletins d'avalanche.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hydrology and Hydrography
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
CONT

To read this map, one must first put its parts together in the mind, seeing it as a chain tying together the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley. The proposed canal reaches across a Mid-Continent Divide to connect the "Chicago Creek" with the Illinois River.

CONT

Note that beaches themselves were new to the lakefront--before the Sanitary and Ship Canal breached the Mid-Continent Divide, it was just too unsafe to bathe or swim in the lake.

Key term(s)
  • Mid Continent Divide

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Série de plateaux et de chaînes de montagnes de la partie orientale de l'Australie, dont l'élévation dépasse 2 000 m.

Spanish

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Record 5 2001-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pollution (General)
CONT

In their review of treatment technologies for remediation of Great Lakes sediment, the USACE and USEPA divide the 147 treatment techniques they consider into six broad categories.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution (Généralités)
CONT

[...] dans le cadre de la revue des technologies de traitement pour la dépollution des sédiments des Grands Lacs, l'USACE et l'USEPA ont classé les 147 techniques de traitement considérées en six grandes catégories.

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plasma Physics
DEF

The study of highly ionized gases.

CONT

The first great divide affecting the basic properties of matter as the temperature rises occurs at about 10, 000 degrees Kelvin. Below that, roughly speaking, is the usual domain of chemistry; above it is the realm of plasma physics.

Key term(s)
  • plasma science

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique des plasmas
CONT

[...] à l'aide du Tokamak PLT (Princeton Large Torus), tous les records de température viennent d'être battus puisque pour la première fois on est parvenu à chauffer le plasma jusqu'à 60 millions de degrés. [...] l'équipe de Melvin Gottlieb [de Princeton] a fait faire un pas très important à la physique des plasmas.

Key term(s)
  • plasmatique

Spanish

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