Sheila Mishra
Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute
24 Papers
135 Citations
Sheila Mishra is an academic researcher from Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quaternary & Alluvium. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 24 publications.
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Papers
High-Resolution Holocene Environmental Changes in the Thar Desert, Northwestern India
Yehouda Enzel,Lisa L. Ely,Sheila Mishra,Rengaswamy Ramesh,Rivka Amit,Boaz Lazar,S. N. Rajaguru,Victor R. Baker,Amir Sandler +8 more
TL;DR: Sediments from Lunkaransar dry lake in northwestern India reveal regional water table and lake level fluctuations over decades to centuries during the Holocene that are attributed to changes in the southwestern Indian monsoon rains as mentioned in this paper.
Continuity of Microblade Technology in the Indian Subcontinent Since 45 ka: Implications for the Dispersal of Modern Humans
TL;DR: It is suggested that modern humans dispersed from Africa in two stages coinciding with the warmer interglacial conditions of MIS 5 and MIS 3 and this calls into question the “southern dispersal” route of modern humans from Africa through India to SE Asia and then to Australia.
Changes in the magnitude and frequency of late Holocene monsoon floods on the Narmada River, central India
TL;DR: In this article, the Narmada River has experienced an anomalous increase in both the magnitude and frequency of large floods when compared with the >1700 yr record of paleoflood deposits on this river.
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Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity
Sheila Mishra,Mark J. White,P. Beaumont,Pierre Antoine,David R. Bridgland,Nicole Limondin-Lozouet,Juan I. Santisteban,Danielle C. Schreve,A.D. Shaw,Francis Wenban-Smith,Rob Westaway,Tom S. White +11 more
TL;DR: The earliest appearance of artefacts in terrace staircases, marking the arrival of the first tool-making hominins in the region in question, is the first of several archaeological markers within fluvial sequences.
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Rheological differences between Archaean and younger crust can determine rates of Quaternary vertical motions revealed by fluvial geomorphology
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that analogous river terrace staircases are absent in the Archaean crust, which lacks the weak lower-crustal layer found elsewhere, which can be explained by surface processes: non-steady-state erosion and cyclical loading by ice-sheets and sea-level fluctuations.
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