Meanings
- geographyA law describing how the river formation is influenced by the Earth's rotation: erosion occurs mostly on the right banks of rivers in the Northern Hemisphere and the left banks of rivers in the Southern Hemisphere.
Synonyms: Baer's law
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA law describing how the river formation is influenced by the Earth's rotation: erosion occurs mostly on the right banks of rivers in the Northern Hemisphere and the left banks of rivers in the Southern Hemisphere.
Origin
The concept was introduced by Jacques Babinet in 1859, and further explained in 1860 by Karl Ernst von Baer.
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