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geologic information. L.M Bybell and G.W. Andrews provided age information of subsurface units. Members of the USGS Water Resources Division in Trenton, N. J. also provided a large amount of support to the project, notably Otto Zapezca. This group supplied support in the drilling of some of the coreholes and provided most of the geophysical logs. An integral part of the map was to produce detailed subsurface framework. Most of the drilling was done by the personnel from the Branch of Eastern Regional Geology primarily Donald Queen and Eugene Cobbs.The text for the various plates were reviewed thoroughly and intensively by Gregory Gohn of the USGS and Richard Dalton of the New Jersey Geological Survey. These outstanding reviewers improved the style and to a degree the substance of these texts. DESCRIPTION OF MAP UNITS (Plate 1)Coastal Plain Sediments Cohansey Formation (middle Miocene, Serravallian)--Sand, loose, white to yellow in most outcrops, locally gravelly and less commonly clayey. Locally stained red or orange brown by iron oxides. In a few areas, the sands have been ce*nented into large blocks of ironstone.This formation is the major surface unit in the central New Jersey Coastal Plain. The maximum thickness in the map area is about 200 ft. The Cchansey has been extensively eroded and stripped from large areas of the New Jersey Coastal Plain, particularly in the north; detached Cohansey outliers are common. In spite of its widespread nature, the Cohansey is poorly exposed because of its loose sandy composition, which causes it to slump easily. Fortunately, because of this same sandy nature, the Cohansey has been widely mined, and man-made exposures are common in many areas. In general, the Cohansey sands are crossbedded, although the style of crossbedding varies significantly depending upon th^ environment of deposition. Most of the crossbedding is trough type, especially in the non-marine channel fill deposits (Owens and Sohl, 1969, fig. 14A an-1 C), and the scale of the crossbeds varies from small to large. In some areas, plarsr bedding is well developed in sections having abundant marine burrows (generally clay-lined Ophiomorpha nodosa). Such marine-influenced beds (largely foreshore deposits) occur west of Asbury Park (Asbury Park quadrangle), near Adelphia (Adelphia quadrangle), north of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station (Lakehurst quadrangle), and at Juliustown (Columbus quadrangle) (Owens and Sohl, 1969, fig. 14D). Rarely, as near West Berlin (Clementon quadrangle), shell ghosts have been observed (Newell and others, 1988).Sands in the Cohansey typically are medium grained although the rar

Wildlife rehabilitation seeks to return healthy animals back to their natural habitat with good survival prospects,and hence contribute to the persistence of their populations. However, the effectiveness of rehabilitation remains largelyundocumented, and its utility as a conservation tool is unclear. In this paper, we document the rehabilitation successof a large, herbivorous marsupial, the common wombat (Vombatus ursinus), and use the findings as a case study toevaluate the contribution that rehabilitation can make to wildlife conservation. Using a database of 54 orphaned wombatsmonitored for up to eight years, we found that 81.5% of young survived to release and, of those, 77.3% were alivein the wild by the end of the study. Survival during rehabilitation was greater for larger, older animals, but influencedalso by problems during care, reaction to human contact following weaning and, in particular, the responses ofindividuals to treatment. No factors associated with rescue condition, rehabilitation or release affected survival of animalsonce returned to the wild, suggesting that wombats were not disadvantaged by their progression through rehabilitation.We provide brief recommendations to improve rehabilitation success for wombats. We conclude that rehabilitation isan under-recognized but potentially valuable conservation tool, and suggest that it is timely to consider its contributionto wildlife management more generally.

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