<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="f42007" name="Beaver" parent="fUS42" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS42" name="Pennsylvania" 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="q41082NEF4" name="Aliquippa" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NEG4" name="Ambridge" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NEG3" name="Baden" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05030104" name="Beaver" parent="h050301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NEF3" name="Beaver" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NEF2" name="Beaver Falls" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082SEE1" name="Burgettstown" parent="q41082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082SEF1" name="Clinton" parent="q41082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05030105" name="Connoquenessing" parent="h050301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NE" name="East Liverpool" parent="q41082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NED3" name="East Liverpool North" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NED4" name="East Liverpool South" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NED2" name="East Palestine" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NEE4" name="Hookstown" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NEE3" name="Midland" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NEE2" name="New Galilee" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082SE" name="Pittsburgh West" parent="q41082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h05030101" name="Upper Ohio" parent="h050301" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082SED1" name="Weirton" parent="q41082SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41082NEG2" name="Zelienople" parent="q41082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>