Somewhere in my past training I remember hearing that tree growth is affected by the turning of the earth in what is called the coriolis effect. My spell checker says it is spelled wrong but I don’t think it is. If you do a Google search for it you’ll find that it indeed spelled correctly. Anyway, the other day I was out hiking in the hills around my house and I found this old snag that really shows the coriolis effect.
It is common to see snags with this effect and anyone who has done any amount of firefighting has seen this but this tree had a really tight spiral and I thought it looked cool. Anyway, when you see this, now you know what it is.
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