A geological survey is the systematic investigation of the geology beneath a given piece of ground for the purpose of creating a geological map or model . Geological surveying employs techniques from the traditional walk-over survey, studying outcrops and landforms , to intrusive methods, such as hand augering and machine-driven boreholes , to the use of geophysical techniques and remote sensing methods, such as aerial photography and satellite imagery . Such surveys may be undertaken by state, province, or national geological survey organizations to maintain the geological inventory and advance the knowledge of geosciences for the benefit of the nation. A geological survey map typically superimposes the surveyed extent and boundaries of geological units on a topographic map, together with information at points (such as measurements of orientation of bedding planes) and lines (such as the intersection of faults with the land surface). The maps and reports created by geological survey organisations generally aim for geographic continuity and completeness in establishing the spatial patterns of near-surface rock units. The map may include cross sections to illustrate the three-dimensional interpretation. Subsurface geological and geophysical maps, providing limited coverage of deeper geology (known, for example, from drilling for oil or gas), are maintained internally by major oil companies and regulators. Some geological survey organisations have collaborated with them to include subsurface geology in their systematic surveys, for example, the Geological Atlas of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin . Subsurface maps typically depict the three-dimensional form of geological surfaces by means of contours and cross sections. Computer-based models are increasingly used to provide more comprehensive information storage and greater flexibility of presentation. In the United States, the 50 state surveys are coordinated by the Association of American State Geologists .
34-529: The James Hall Office , formerly a part of the Sunshine School , is a historic building located in Lincoln Park in the city of Albany , New York, United States. It is a small brick Italianate building now annexed to a more modern school building. In 1976 it was designated a National Historic Landmark for its association with James Hall (1811–1898), a leading American geologist of the 19th century. It
68-710: A "Beloved Community March" that travels from the Empire State Plaza concourse entrance on Madison Avenue to Swan Street (which turns into Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard at the entrance to the park) and ends at the King Monument with the laying of a wreath. The park contains the larger of Albany's two public pools, the Lincoln Park Pool. It covers approximately 2 acres (0.81 ha), is 7 feet (2.1 m) deep in center, and can hold over 300 swimmers at
102-538: A career. After working at the RPI library following graduation, he began working with the state's newly established geological survey , which became his lifelong career. After a groundbreaking 1843 report on the state's fourth district which established him as one of the nation's leading stratigraphers and paleontologists , the survey asked him to do a paleontological report on the entire state. The resulting eight-volume, 13-part report, considered an American scientific classic,
136-440: A gently pitched front- gabled roof. A small tower is at its southeast corner, topped by a flat roof pierced by a brick chimney. On its east it is joined to the school building for the entire length. A stairway to the basement, with modern metal guardrail, is cut into the pavement at the southwest corner. It has been painted white, which has begun to fade and flake off, with green trim. A string course of projecting brick divides
170-499: A great deal of his time at the 1852 office until he died 13 years later. Its interior, essentially one large room at the time, was lined with charts, specimens and books. Off to one side was his spartan bedroom. By 1916 the city had acquired the building. That year the geological survey had the plaque, commemorating Hall's life and work in the building, affixed. At some point during the intervening 60 years between then and its National Historic Landmark designation, it began being used as
204-461: A gym, weight room, and activities such as wrestling, karate, dance fitness, and cardio. Since the park's primary purpose is as a public outdoor sports/fitness activity center, the park sees many spontaneous non-traditional activities by the public ranging such as Tai chi on the tennis courts. Until 2011, two public schools were located within Lincoln Park, though the land they sit on was owned by
238-587: A house around 1880 along Delaware Avenue . The first portion of the park to be opened was a children's playground that was built by the Mother's Club (today the Women's Club of Albany), and this included Hall's land. It was Albany's first park that was more than passive, it was the city's first public playground and was called the Central Playground. Hall's office became the location of indoor children's activities, and
272-607: A permanent home can be given to them on the grounds of the New York State Museum , both the state's boulders and the Geological Rock Park are open to the public. Capital District Community Gardens (CDCG) has a community garden with 51 10-by-10-foot (3.0 m × 3.0 m) plots located in the park off Eagle Street. For 55 years the American Little League of Albany has sold Christmas trees on
306-631: A school. It was annexed to the Sunshine School building shortly after that. The school remained open until 2011. Shortly after it was closed, the Albany City School District agreed to sell the building to the Boys & Girls Club of Albany. The sale is still pending Lincoln Park (Albany) Lincoln Park is an urban park in Albany , New York , with a unique history, from being the site of
340-409: A site near Saratoga Springs , also a National Historic Landmark, were originally organic. In the late 20th century it was expanded slightly and annexed to one of Albany's elementary schools. It served that purpose until 2011. After voters approved the school district 's plan to sell it, the building and annex is pending purchase by the Boys and Girls Club of Albany. The former office is located on
374-604: A skirmish in 1626 between the Dutch and Mohawks to brickyards and breweries to being Albany's first public playground. The park features Albany's only outdoor non-wading swimming pool, along with several tennis courts, basketball courts, and football and baseball fields. Within the park is the James Hall Office , a National Historic Landmark , and the Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST) an elementary school. In 2018
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#1733125364525408-572: A stringcourse separating its top and bottom stages, with a single segmental-arched window similar to those on the south facade on each of its faces. Small brackets hold up the cornice. A Massachusetts native, James Hall came to the Capital District to study under Amos Eaton at what is now Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy . Hall also went on field expeditions led by Ebenezer Emmons , which along with Eaton led him to choose geology as
442-514: A time. The pool may be the largest cement pool in the Northeastern United States . In 1988 the pool was given a half a million dollar renovation after leaking so badly the year before that it was losing a quarter of its water daily. The park also has a wading pool and spray pool . Lincoln Park has multiple tennis courts, basketball courts, handball courts, and playgrounds as well as ball fields. A youth fitness center (ages 7–19) with
476-446: Is one of the few buildings remaining from a brief period of collaboration between Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux . Hall, a paleontologist , led research on the geology of North America during the 19th century. He spent much of his time working in this small building, which served him as both office and laboratory. Among his many discoveries here, Hall found that the stromatolite fossils discovered at Petrified Sea Gardens ,
510-574: The City School District of Albany and not by the city as part of the park. They are the Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST) and the Sunshine School. TOAST still operates as a pre-K through 5 elementary magnet school and the Sunshine School was used for transitioning at-risk students in grades 9-12 from places such as jail, prison, juvenile detention centers, New York State Office of Children and Family Services , or drug treatment facilities. In January 2011 The Sunshine School
544-449: The Hudson in 1852, the year the building was finished. It is one of the few extant works credited to both Downing and Vaux. In the 1880s, Hall had a house for his family built nearby. He nevertheless spent so much time working in the office, sometimes sleeping there, that he and his family grew distant. In 1885 the state insisted he work out of one of its offices; however he continued to spend
578-761: The Ramones played in Lincoln Park at the University at Albany, SUNY 's 1996 Party at the Park. The Northeast Rugby Union's Division II Women's Championship was held in Lincoln Park in 2002. As part of the 300th anniversary of the Dongan Charter incorporating Albany as a city , Lincoln Park was the site of a hot-air balloon launch and a reenactment of a skirmish of US Revolutionary War forces. The annual NYS Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Memorial Observance ends each year with
612-720: The Times Union Center ). In 1989 the prologue to the first Tour de Trump featured a loop through Lincoln Park. In 1993 South Swan Street within the park, from Morton Avenue to Myrtle Avenue, was renamed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and a statue of King was erected at the corner of said boulevard and Morton Avenue. Martin Luther King III was in attendance at the unveiling as the guest speaker. The statue comprises an 8-foot (2.4 m) tall statue with panels of granite etched with images from throughout his life and of lines of his speeches. The Lincoln Park pool bathhouse
646-519: The Lincoln Park swimming pool and where Hawk Street would be if extended through the park. By 1800 the mills were deteriorated and abandoned, and soon after 40 acres (16 ha) were sold as pasture. Due to the fine natural clay banks along the gorge carved by the Beaver Kill several brickyards came to be established in Lincoln Park during the 19th century, mostly along Morton Avenue between Hawk and Eagle. The Beaver Kill's natural waterfall, west of
680-422: The basement and first story. Windows are all set with six-over-six double-hung sash . All have simple sills of brick; the central window on the south (front) facade has a similar lintel. The main entrance is located to its east. Above that central window is a commemorative plaque . It is topped by a pair of smaller windows, segmentally arched in splayed brick. At the roofline is a molded cornice . The tower has
714-459: The early 20th century included the destruction of Martinville in 1910 and a swimming pool in 1915 was constructed, but was contaminated due to the proximity of the sewer that was the underground Beaver Creek. In 1930 the current swimming pool was constructed in its place. In 1954 Albany Public School 24 (PS 24) was built in the northwestern corner of the park off Delaware Avenue, previously having been in an 1893 building several blocks north. In 1990
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#1733125364525748-504: The exclusive use of himself and his assistants. Andrew Jackson Downing and his student Calvert Vaux were collaborating at the time, and designed it in the Italian villa style the former had popularized. It closely matches one drawing in Downing's influential pattern book, The Architecture of Country Houses . The two architects' collaboration ended with Downing's death in a steamboat accident on
782-410: The intersection of Park Avenue and South Swan Street provided for waterwheel power for local industry. Industry continued to be located around the falls, especially breweries which would dump so much waste product into the Beaver Kill that the falls became known as Buttermilk Falls. What is today the southwestern corner of the park was once owned by James Hall who owned an office built around 1852 and
816-428: The majority of present-day Lincoln Park east of Swan Street. Under plans drawn by Charles Downing Lay and Arnold Brunner , published in 1914 as Stvdies for Albany the eastern section of the park was developed. The original plan was more elaborate and grand than what was actually built. But the basic plan for athletic fields, a swimming pool, bathhouse, and children's activities were kept. These developments in
850-605: The mayor regarding a civic center in Lincoln Park. The mayor, who would die four months later, responded with "Please discuss this with Jim Coyne", who was the Albany County executive. Later that year Coyne announced plans for a county-owned civic center facility, and though the Lincoln Park site was proposed at public hearings, the first site chosen was in Latham before finally settling on South Pearl Street in Downtown Albany (today
884-445: The northwest corner of the building, in the southwest portion of the park. One of the park's internal access roads, to the south, provides access to a parking lot on the west. Beyond it, Morton Avenue is 300 ft (100 m) to the south. On the west is a large octagonal children's swimming pool, basketball court and tennis courts along Delaware Avenue ( U.S. Route 9W ). To the north is another, larger school. A wooded area past it buffers
918-550: The park from the Center Square/Hudson–Park Historic District to the north. Eastward, the park extends for another half-mile (800 m) to Eagle Street, sloping gently down toward the Hudson River a mile (1.6 km) further to the east. The South End–Groesbeckville Historic District begins along Morton just southeast of Eagle. The building itself is a one-story three-by-four- bay brick structure with
952-635: The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Lincoln Park sits mostly in a large basin or ravine carved by the Beaver Kill, a stream that flowed from the west to the Hudson River . In 1626 the commander of the Dutch Republic 's colonial outpost Fort Orange along with a company of six soldiers accompanied their allies, the Mohicans , in their war against the Mohawks. They were ambushed on
986-420: The school was renamed the Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST). In 1982 a proposal was made to Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd for a civic center in the eastern section of Lincoln Park. The mayor was receptive to the plan and inquired to the state about use of parking facilities at the Empire State Plaza in conjunction with the civic center. The next year another group of investors proposed to
1020-567: The site of his house would later become the site of today's tennis courts. West of Hawk Street was the location of Martinville, an Irish shanty town from the American Civil War era, named for its builder James Martin. Through Chapter 449 of the Laws of 1890 the Commissioners of Washington Park received authorization to acquire land for Beaver Park, an irregular shaped area corresponding to
1054-502: The site of the future Lincoln Park near Delaware Avenue , during the battle the commander and three of the soldiers died. As the city grew the kill ( Dutch for creek) and the land in the area came to be owned by the Dutch Reformed Church . Evert Wendell, perhaps illegally as a squatter, built saw and grist mills and a brewery on that land prior to 1737, using the water power from the kill. These improvements were located near
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1088-533: Was gutted and renovated in 2001 at a cost of $ 3 million. Many festivals, concerts, and parties have been held over the years in the park. In 1949 the "I am an American" Day celebration in Lincoln Park overshadowed the first annual Tulip Fest in Washington Park . Over 25,000 people attended the anti-Communist Cold War event which featured heavy-weight boxing champ Jack Dempsey and two-time- Oscar -winning actor Harold Russell . As part of their farewell tour
1122-469: Was moved to Watervliet Ave. and the Sunshine School building was offered for sale in 2012. The Sunshine School is located in James Hall's former office. TOAST has an associated Outdoor Learning Center in the park and a Geological Rock Park that opened in 2001. Adjacent to the school's Geological Rock Park are 50 1-2 ton boulders from across the state of New York that are being temporarily stored there until
1156-447: Was not published until 1894, four years before his death. During that time he was appointed the state geologist for not only New York but Iowa and Wisconsin as well, and the director of the New York State Museum . His work consisted primarily of reviewing and inspecting fossil and rock samples, not just from New York but the entire country. By 1850 he had run out of storage space at his state office, so he had this building constructed for
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