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.
This lent further support to A. Wegener's Continental Drift Theory. Earth's Plates: The Earth's crust is divided into huge, thick plates that drift atop the soft mantle. The plates are made of rock and are from 50 to 250 miles (80 to 400 km) thick. They move both horizontally and vertically.