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.
The continental shelf is an undersea extension of a continent that can stretch a great distance out to sea in some cases.n some instances, the continental shelf is very short, as is the case in subduction zones where one tectonic plate is being sucked below another. A well known example can be found in the waters off the coast of Chile. In other cases, extension stretches for many miles (or kilometers) out to sea.