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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Oliva View Post
    Some of this is pure myth. Two of Europe's biggest rivers - the Rhine and Elbe as examples - flow northward, i.e. away from the equator. If rivers avoided higher levels above sea level they wouldn't be able to flow down to the sea (not that all rivers do that). They'd have to flow up to it.
    Um, that is kind of my point... Rivers LEAVE the areas that are ABOVE sea level and travel TOWARDS Sea Level. And if you look at the geography of Europe, it's a bit hard to flow south with the Alps where they are, consequently those rivers tend to head north.

    So Height Above Sea-Level beats centripetal force tendencies for the water to head towards the equator.


    *Physics Side-note and the reason for the equator comment...
    Any object covered in liquid that is then rotated will have the water move towards the point of greatest radius from the axis of rotation. Catch is that Landform will trump centripetal motion.
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