| These wildfires poured vast amounts of pollutants into the atmosphere. Based on the amount of soot found in sediments deposited soon after the impact event, it has been estimated that ten trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), one-hundred billion tons of methane (CH4), and one trillion tons of carbon monoxide (CO) were pumped into the atmosphere. These pollutants contributed to the environmental catastrophe of the Chicxulub impact event and may have been partly reponsible for the mass extinction event. |
