Burnt oil and gas, not vegetation, may have caused the soot layer at the end of the Cretaceous period.
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Ball, P. 'Dinosaur-killing' impact did not start global wildfires. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.112
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.112