Continental divide

At an abandoned gasoline station in Continental Divide, New Mexico, Bio-Net technology was installed using hydrauhc fracturing. The system was designed and installed for 141,000 (D213332, p. 29). 

Figure 6.2. Schematic representation of the jump from an excited-state surface (S, or T,) to the ground-state surface a) without chemical conversion and b) in the region of a continental divide with partial conversion.

Field-to-field (or habitat-to-habitat) extrapolation specifies the relationship of one field or habitat to another. It may be highly unlikely that any two habitats can be identical. Streams on one side of a continental divide tend to have different flora and fauna than comparable streams on the other side. Even controlled field studies exhibited differences in the replicates. The effect of a toxicant in the streams may be the same in a qualitative fashion, but quantification may not be possible. 

B Swap your cruise ship for a smaller boat and transit a portion of the Panama Canal. Yju travel over the man-made Gatun Lake, cross the continental divide and enter the Miguel Locks reaching the Pacific. 

Mean annual precipitation for most subalpine larch sites is between 800 and 1,900 mm, the greater amount being more prevalent near the crest of the Cascades. Most stands in Montana s Bitterroot Range receive 1,000 to 1,500 mm. Approximately 75% of this precipitation is snow and sleet. Typically, the snowpack begins to accumulate by late October. By mid-April, it reaches a maximum depth averaging about 2 m in stands near the Continental Divide and about 3 m farther west. The snowpack does not melt away in most stands until early July. The average snowfall is about 10 m in most stands west of the Continental Divide (Amo, 1990). 

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