Originally Posted by red94teg

Eeeeexcellent...One to go. Question: A river is flowing due north in the Northern Hemisphere. Which river bank, the east or the west, would you expect to show more erosion due to the Coriolis effect?

Originally Posted by red94teg

The result is that an object traveling away from the equator will eventually be heading east faster than the ground below it and will seem to be moved east by some mysterious "force".