K-T Extinction (from H. Barwood)

[N.MacLeod@xxxxxxxxx (N. MacLeod)]

I am an outsider to the paleontological community:however, two things
about the K-T extinction have always bothered me:

1) If there were global wildfires associated with a bolide impact, should
there not also be huge erosional deposits containing charcoal? Denudation
of land surface on a global scale should have generated enormous piles of
sediment along continental boundaries. Charcoal is often incorporated
into similar deposits associated with paleozoic drought induced wildfires.

2) If enormous herds of dinosaurs were killed off (especially on the
North American continent) and coastal areas were blasted by a tsunami,
where are the vast deposits of carcasses that were swept into the ocean?
Surely they would have accumulated in quiet water areas and at least
traces of massive bone beds analogous to terrestrial flood deposits would
have formed somewhere?

Perhaps my reasoning is flawed and neither of these events happened, but
I find it curious that evidence of them has not surfaced.

                             Henry Barwood
                             Indiana Geological Survey