Inside the earth, why us the layer containing petroleum oil and gas formed above the layer of water.
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As the rocks and silt settled, layer uponlayer piled up in rivers, along coastlines and on the sea bottom trapping the organic material. ... Over millions of years, the oil and gas that formed in the source rock deep within the Earth moved upward through tiny, connected pore spaces in the rocks.
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