[bribriagain]

"Oil doesn't migrate through "streams" or collect in "ponds." Maybe they dumbed this down for the general public, but it's grossly misleading and casts doubts on the seriousness of this study."

Enlighten us, please.

[Dog Gone]

Petroleum geology is an entire major at a university, but the hardest thing for most of the public to understand is that oil seeps through microscopic pores in what appears to be solid rock.

There are no underground ponds of oil, much less streams. It's oil contained in solid rock under pressure unknown at the surface of the earth.

Some rocks are more "hollow" than others, but it's still solid rock.

Ancient earthquake faults provide leaks from one rock strata to another, but it's still nothing that can be accurately described as a stream.