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It took me a while to get it (and I'm not a geologist or petroleum engineer or anything, just someone who knows basic physics and has been reading a geology textbook), but I think I understand Erik's answer: It's based on buoyancy.
Consider a column of permeable rock and soil that has a zone of aeration above a zone of saturation. (I'm gonna talk about water,...
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