Schaumburg Township, Cook County, Illinois. Schaumburg Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 131,288. It is the south central township of the Cook County panhandle.
Since there is no true consensus on what a continental divide is, there is no real agreement on where the triple points are. However, the main Continental Divide described in this article is a far more distinctive geological feature than the others and its two main triple points are much more prominent.
How does continental drift occur? The Earth's crust is fragmented into large pieces called plates,  some of which carry the continents. These plates overlie the  mantle, which is solid, but under such tremenâ¦dous pressure that in  many ways it behaves like a liquid.