<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="h01080106" name="Black-Ottauquechee" parent="h010801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h010801" name="Upper Connecticut" parent="h0108" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0108" name="Connecticut" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h01" name="New England" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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="q44074SEC2" name="Andover" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEE3" name="Bellows Falls" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SED1" name="Cavendish" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SED2" name="Chester" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEC3" name="Delectable Mountain" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1197" name="Green Mountain National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEF3" name="Hanover" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEE4" name="Hartland" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEB4" name="Killington Peak" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEC1" name="Ludlow" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEB1" name="Mount Holly" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEF4" name="North Hartland" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p405" name="North Springfield Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEB3" name="Pico Peak" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEC4" name="Plymouth" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NEE3" name="Quechee" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f50021" name="Rutland" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEE2" name="Springfield" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEB2" name="Weston" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f50027" name="Windsor" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEE1" name="Windsor" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NED3" name="Woodstock North" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074NED4" name="Woodstock South" parent="q44074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>