Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, Volume - 72, Year - 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS  

AUTHOR NAME  

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Minutes of the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science.  

5

Presidential Address: One Breath Per Year.

Nels Granholm  

17

Presidental Address: Freshwater Bivalves.  

Keith Perkins  

21

Senior Research Papers Presented at the Seventy-eighth Annual Meeting of the South Dakota Academy of Science:

The Relationship between Classical and Quantum Mechanics.  

George H. Duffey  

27

Largemouth Bass Biomass, Density and Size Structure in Small South Dakota Impoundments.  

Tracy D. Hill and David W. Willis  

31

Standard and Relative Weight for the Pallid Sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus.  

K. D. Keenlyne and P. D. Evenson  

41

Food Habits of White Crappies in Lake Goldsmith, South Dakota.  

Christopher S. Guy and David W. Willis  

51

Wetland Water Quality Characteristics in the Rainwater Basin Area of Nebraska.  

Christine C. Gordon, Lester D. Flake, Kenneth F. Higgins, and W. Lee Tucker  

61

Waterfowl Use of and Production on Nesting Structures in South Dakota.  

James D. Ray and Kenneth F. Higgins  

73

Response by Upland Nesting Ducks to Three Rejuvenation Treatments Applied to Two Types of Seeded Nesting Cover in South Dakota.  

Donald P. Kemner and Kenneth F. Higgins  

87

Riparian Habitats Relative to Wood Duck Management in South Dakota.  

Paul F. Coughlin and Kenneth F. Higgins  

111 

The Fertilizing Effects of a Selective Herbicide and Its Components on a Northern Mixed Prairie.  

H. A. Geise and E. M. White  

133

A Comparison of Divisional Growing Season Drought between Western and Southeastern South Dakota.  

Matthew J. Bunkers, James R. Miller, Jr., Carolyn Hull Sieg, and Arthur T. DeGaetano  

141

Stream Runoff from Black Hills Watersheds.  

Perry H. Rahn and Arden D. Davis  

161

An Analytical Model To Predict the Geometry of the Cone of Depression Caused by Pumping an Anisotropic Aquifer.  

D.R. Dayananda  

177

High-Resolution Seismic Surveys for Ground Water Investigations, Spink and Beadle Counties, South Dakota.  

M. Selvakumar and W. M. Roggenthen  

183

Study of Electrification in Thunderstorms Using In-Situ Aircraft Measurements.  

Rahul Ramachandran and Andrew Detwiler  

189

A Climatological Record from Western Rapid City.  

James R. Miller and L. Ronald Johnson  

201

The Development of the James River Trench and Resulting Soils in Yankton County.  

Edgar Ensz  

215

The First Occurrence of Vertebrates, Represented by the Paleozoic Sharks Petrodus, Listracanthus, Cladodus,and Cranodus(?) from the Pennsylvanian-Permian Minnelusa Formation near Piedmont, South Dakota.  

Randy A. Elder  

221

First Definitive Record of the Mosasaur Tylosaurus proriger from the Niobrara Formation (Upper Cretaceous), South Dakota.  

Bruce A. Schumacher and James E. Martin  

235

Late Cretaceous Selachians and Associated Marine Vertebrates from the Dakota Rose Granite Quarry, Grant County, South Dakota.  

J. D. Stewart and James E. Martin  

241

Occurrence of Eocene Sedimentary Rocks on Prune Island, Grenadines, Lesser Antilles.  

Gary D. Johnson and Valentine J.Ansfield  

249

Synthesis of TIC-WC Solid Solutions by Combustion Reactions.  

K. K. Udwadia and J. A. Puszynski  

255

Combustion Synthesis and Densification in the Field of Centrifugal Forces.  

S. Chandran and J. A. Puszynski  

263

Extracting a Signal in the Presence of Noise with a Recurrent Neural Network.  

Edward M. Corwin, Antonette M. Logar, and William J. B. Oldham  

271

Abstracts of Senior Research Papers.  

279

Senior Research Papers Published by Title Only.  

359

Abstracts of Award-Winning Junior Papers.  

361