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A hydrostatic environment is one within which there is no internal motion or movement of the fluid. The maximum internal pressure gradient (the direction in which the rate of pressure increase is the greatest) is vertical, attributable to gravitational weight of the overlying fluids, as discussed earlier. All internal forces are oriented vertically, buoyancy being the major one. (Anyone who has swum to the bottom of a deep swimming pool has felt the effects of this gradient in the form of “squeeze.”)
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Dahlberg, E.C. (1995). Fluid Environments. In: Applied Hydrodynamics in Petroleum Exploration. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4258-1_3
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