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.
Main Image: The continental slope is the submerged border of a continent that slopes gradually to the ocean bottom. The total length of the worldâs continental slope sums up to 300,000 km. More than one-half of all continental slopes descend in deep sea trenches.The rest of the slopes descend into the shallow marine sediments.It has been observed that the Pacific Continental Slope is steeper than the Atlantic Continental Slope.he continental slope is the submerged border of a continent that slopes gradually to the ocean bottom. The total length of the worldâs continental slope sums up to 300,000 km.