Europe watershed of Baltic and Black sea, Czech Republic
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Europe watershed of Baltic and Black sea - a roof of Europe
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Location: Olomoucký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 08/31/2011
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Drainage divide
A drainage divide, water divide, divide or (outside North America) watershed is the line separating neighbouring drainage basins (catchments). In hilly country, the divide lies along topographical peaks and ridges, and may be in the form of a single range of hills or mountains (known as a Dividing range), but in flat country (especially where the ground is marshy) the divide may be invisible – just a more or less notional line on the ground on either side of which falling raindrops will start a journey to different rivers, and even to different sides of a region or continent.
European Watershed
The European Watershed is the line which divides the drainage basins of the major rivers of Germany: the Rhine, which originates in the Swiss Alps and empties into the North Sea via the Netherlands, and the Danube, which originates in the Black Forest and flows eastward emptying into the Black Sea.
The watershed is not a clearly defined divide. Tectonics, especially in the area that is now the Upper Rhine Plain, created River Rhine. As its headward erosion is much stronger than that of the much older River Danube (see the upper river geology) (due to the Rhine’s gravity[clarification needed] on its much shorter way to the North Sea), the Rhine and its tributaries intrude deeper into phreatic zones of the Swabian Karst and even capture the upper Danube and its surface tributaries.
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