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Main European drainage divides (red lines) separating catchments (green regions). The main European watershed is the drainage divide ("watershed") which separates the basins of the rivers that empty into the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea from those that feed the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea.
A valley floor divide is a low drainage divide that runs across a valley, sometimes created by deposition or stream capture. Major divides separating rivers that drain to different seas or oceans are continental divides. The term height of land is used in Canada and the United States to refer to a drainage divide. [2]
The list of drainage basins by area identifies basins (also known as "catchments" or, in North American usage, "watersheds"), sorted by area, which drain to oceans, mediterranean seas, rivers, lakes and other water bodies.
A drainage basin is an area of land where all surface water converges to a single point at a lower elevation. In North America, "watershed" is used for this sense, while elsewhere terms like "catchment" or "drainage area" are used. A drainage divide is the line that separates neighboring drainage basins. In English-speaking countries outside of ...
Due to the millions of years of later deposition, erosion and other changes since, five drainage basins today drain almost all of the Basin. These are two flowing north, the basins/specified parts of basins as follows: upper Moselle and upper Meuse; And three flowing west, the: Seine basin, central Loire basin and Somme.
Germany and France, Germany and Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands, Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Sava Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, Croatia and Serbia: Seversky Donets Ukraine and Russia: Sozh Belarus and Ukraine: Tana River (Norway) Finland and Norway: Termon
In neighboring Belgium, 37 breaches in dikes flooded several towns and villages, including Antwerp, claiming 22 lives. This was also the worst flood of the 20th century in parts of the U.K.
The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.