The Gulf of Mexico's shallower waters at the impact site produced a dense cloud containing as much as 100 billion tons of vaporized sulfur.
Notes on verification
Corroborated by multiple independent science-based sources including National Geographic, Science.org, and CORDIS, consistent with peer-reviewed research on the Chicxulub impact's sulfur release.
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