<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="h01080203" name="Deerfield" parent="h010802" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h010802" name="Lower 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="q43074NEB4" name="Ashfield" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f50003" name="Bennington" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f25003" name="Berkshire" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NED3" name="Bernardston" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEC3" name="Colrain" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f25011" name="Franklin" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="p2523" name="George D. Aiken Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEB1" name="Goshen" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEC2" name="Governors Mountain" parent="q43074NE" 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="q43074NED4" name="Greenfield" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f25015" name="Hampshire" parent="fUS25" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEB3" name="Heath" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEB2" name="Jacksonville" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2596" name="Lye Brook Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEA1" name="Mount Snow" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SED1" name="Mount Toby" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NWH3" name="North Adams" parent="q43074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEA4" name="Plainfield" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEA2" name="Readsboro" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEA3" name="Rowe" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEC4" name="Shelburne Falls" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NWH2" name="Stamford" parent="q43074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SEA4" name="Stratton Mountain" parent="q44074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44074SWH4" name="Sunderland" parent="q44074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NEB1" name="West Dover" parent="q43074NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SEC1" name="Williamsburg" parent="q43074SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f50025" name="Windham" parent="fUS50" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NWH4" name="Windsor" parent="q43074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074NWH1" name="Woodford" parent="q43074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>