<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="fUS36" name="New York" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><bt><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 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name="Delaware" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36027" name="Dutchess" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36029" name="Erie" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36031" name="Essex" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36033" name="Franklin" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36035" name="Fulton" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36037" name="Genesee" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36039" name="Greene" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36041" name="Hamilton" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36043" name="Herkimer" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36045" name="Jefferson" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36047" name="Kings" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36049" name="Lewis" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36051" name="Livingston" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36053" name="Madison" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36055" name="Monroe" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36057" name="Montgomery" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36059" name="Nassau" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36061" name="New York" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36063" name="Niagara" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36065" name="Oneida" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36067" name="Onondaga" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36069" name="Ontario" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36071" name="Orange" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36073" name="Orleans" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36075" name="Oswego" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" 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scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36103" name="Suffolk" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36105" name="Sullivan" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36107" name="Tioga" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36109" name="Tompkins" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36111" name="Ulster" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36113" name="Warren" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36115" name="Washington" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36117" name="Wayne" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36119" name="Westchester" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36121" name="Wyoming" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f36123" name="Yates" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q43074" name="Albany" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0501" name="Allegheny" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q43076" name="Binghamton" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43080" name="Buffalo" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0110" name="Connecticut Coastal" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0204" name="Delaware" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="a308" name="Early Mesozoic basin aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="h0412" name="Eastern Lake Erie-Lake Erie" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q43078" name="Elmira" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074" name="Glens Falls" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074" name="Hartford" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45078" name="Kingston" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45074" name="Lake Champlain" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0203" name="Lower Hudson-Long Island" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074" name="New York" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a416" name="New York and New England carbonate-rock aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="a309" name="New York sandstone aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076" name="Newark" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0415" name="Northeastern Lake Ontario-Lake Ontario-St. Law" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="a205" name="Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076" name="Ogdensburg" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 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subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q44076" name="Utica" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a502" name="Valley and Ridge aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q42080" name="Warren" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42078" name="Williamsport" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>