<descriptor thcode="1"><thesaurus thcode="1" name="Common geographic areas" scope="Names and identifiers of commonly-known geographic areas including oceans, continents, countries, states and provinces in North America, counties in the United States, USGS map quadrangles, and hydrologic units, nested and cross-referenced by overlap." creator="U.S. Geological Survey" rights="Public domain" edition="1.0" date="2002-03-21" codetype="alpha" prefix="geo" uri="http://www.usgs.gov/science/CommonGeographicAreas" tblname="geo" nonpref="geonp" relterm="geort" root_code="root" contact="pschweitzer"><category><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/><term thcode="25" code="13" name="transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms have an &quot;is a&quot; relationship with their broader terms, and generally can be described as part-of, type-of, or instance-of the broader term."/><term thcode="25" code="30" name="ambiguous labels" parent="26" scope="A given preferred label may be used for more than one concept in the thesaurus. A concept must be specified using its unique identifier (code). This may occur in the names of places or people."/><term thcode="25" code="4" name="place" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate extent in space, typically by reference as the names of geographic areas known from information that is stored elsewhere."/><term thcode="25" code="16" name="hierarchical" parent="11" scope="Substantive broader-narrower relationships exist among the terms."/></category><altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>Augmented FIPS 10-4 and FIPS 6-4</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel><altlabel>CommonGeographicAreas</altlabel></altlabel></thesaurus><term thcode="1" code="f36097" name="Schuyler" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS36" name="New York" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS" name="United States" parent="fLD10" scope="country"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD10" name="North America" parent="fLD" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="fLD" name="Land" parent="root" scope="continent"/><term thcode="1" code="root" name="Earth" scope="Common geographic areas focused on the US"/></bt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q43078SEC2" name="Alpine" parent="q43078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078NE" name="Auburn" parent="q43078" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SEA2" name="Beaver Dams" parent="q43078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SWH2" name="Bradford" parent="q43078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SEB1" name="Burdett" parent="q43078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h02050105" name="Chemung" parent="h020501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078NEA4" name="Dundee" parent="q43078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SE" name="Elmira" parent="q43078" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SEC3" name="Erin" parent="q43078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1187" name="Finger Lakes National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SW" name="Hornell" parent="q43078" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078NEB4" name="Lodi" parent="q43078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SEC1" name="Mecklenburg" parent="q43078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SEB2" name="Montour Falls" parent="q43078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h02050103" name="Owego-Wappasening" parent="h020501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SEA1" name="Reading Center" parent="q43078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h04140201" name="Seneca" parent="h041402" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078NEC4" name="Trumansburg" parent="q43078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SED3" name="Van Etten" parent="q43078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SWH1" name="Wayne" parent="q43078SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078SED2" name="West Danby" parent="q43078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>