Greasy or oily surfaces tend to make water roll of to the sides don't they. Just like after you wax your car then spray it with a hose. You nice even film of water ends up with big puckers in it.
But not 22 feet deep. There is no evidence of this kind of behavior in any oil spill or seep.
If you change gravity, water density and a few other physical constants enough to allow water to flow up the sides of mountains ...
I'm not changing gravity or any other constants.
Well if you change the direction of gravity such that it is perpendicular to whatever surface is there then it will have a whole lot less strength due to there being less material through the cross section of a mountain than there is through the centre of the planet.
I would say that to keep the 22 foot deep water at all points on the planet would take a pretty major change in the way that gravity works so who's to say that 22 feet deep might be similar to what we see for a couple of milimeters now? It's no more far fetched than the rest of the scenario.
It even explains why so many animals fell into the things since they were the only spots on the planet that weren't submerged.
Again, going on experience with oil spills and seeps from the deep, oil floats up to the surface, even when congealed into tar like material. The surface would be slightly higher if anything: crude oil has a specific gravity that varies from 0.790 to 0.873 (anything below 1.0 floats, everything over 1.0 sinks - compared to fresh water, salt water today has a specific gravity of 1.025).
yeah sure it floats if you dump it on top of the water but this stuff was sticky... and already there before the water.
And remember that under circumstances where water can flow up the side of mountains, all bets are pretty much off. Predicting what would really happen under conditions that would allow that, might be a tad tricky so I think my hypothesis is just as realistic as any other that I've ever heard.
And of course we all know that mammals can swim while dinosaurs just sank ...
What? How do we know that dinosaurs couldn't swim just as well as mammals - many even had hollow bones, so they should be LESS dense than mammals. Some were known to be aquatic and some were shore dwellers (duck-billed dinos) that were adapted to semi-aquatic habitat with nostrils at the tops of their skulls.
Ahhh rubbish. All dinosaur bones that have ever been found are made of rock whereas mammals that are alive today have much less dense bones. It's obvious that a creature with rock bones must have been much more dense. Besides, the fact that there aren't any dinos in the tar pits just proves that they couldn't swim doesn't it?