Baer-Babinet law
Meanings
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- A 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.
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Etymology
The concept was introduced by Jacques Babinet in 1859, and further explained in 1860 by Karl Ernst von Baer.
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