<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="fUS56" name="Wyoming" 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 areas focused on the US"/></bt><nt><term thcode="1" code="f56001" name="Albany" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56003" name="Big Horn" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56005" name="Campbell" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56007" name="Carbon" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56009" name="Converse" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56011" name="Crook" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56013" name="Fremont" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56015" name="Goshen" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56017" name="Hot Springs" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56019" name="Johnson" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56021" name="Laramie" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56023" name="Lincoln" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56025" name="Natrona" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56027" name="Niobrara" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56029" name="Park" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56031" name="Platte" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56033" name="Sheridan" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56035" name="Sublette" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56037" name="Sweetwater" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56039" name="Teton" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56041" name="Uinta" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56043" name="Washakie" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f56045" name="Weston" parent="fUS56" scope="county"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q44108" name="Arminto" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45112" name="Ashton" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h1601" name="Bear" parent="h16" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1008" name="Big Horn" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q46110" name="Billings" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46112" name="Bozeman" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43108" name="Casper" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h1012" name="Cheyenne" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q42106" name="Cheyenne" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45110" name="Cody" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a301" name="Colorado Plateaus aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q41108" name="Craig" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44112" name="Driggs" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46106" name="Ekalaka" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45106" name="Gillette" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h1404" name="Great Divide - Upper Green" parent="h14" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1602" name="Great Salt Lake" parent="h16" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q41106" name="Greeley" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46108" name="Hardin" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a107" name="High Plains aquifer" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q43110" name="Lander" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a304" name="Lower Cretaceous aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="a314" name="Lower Tertiary aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="h1002" name="Missouri Headwaters" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1011" name="Missouri-Little Missouri" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q44106" name="Newcastle" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h1015" name="Niobrara" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1018" name="North Platte" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="a105" name="Northern Rocky Mountains Intermontane Basins aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q42112" name="Ogden" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a610" name="Pacific Northwest basaltic-rock aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="a104" name="Pacific Northwest basin-fill aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="a504" name="Paleozoic aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="h1009" name="Powder-Tongue" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q43112" name="Preston" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42108" name="Rawlins" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42110" name="Rock Springs" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41112" name="Salt Lake City" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45108" name="Sheridan" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h1019" name="South Platte" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q44110" name="Thermopolis" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43106" name="Torrington" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a315" name="Upper Cretaceous aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="h1704" name="Upper Snake" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="a316" name="Upper Tertiary aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="h1007" name="Upper Yellowstone" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q41110" name="Vernal" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h1405" name="White-Yampa" parent="h14" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>