<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="h01100005" name="Housatonic" parent="h011000" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h011000" name="Connecticut Coastal" parent="h0110" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0110" name="Connecticut Coastal" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h01" name="New England" parent="hroot" 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWH1" name="Peru" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWC1" name="Pine Plains" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWG1" name="Pittsfield East" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWF1" name="Pittsfield West" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWC4" name="Poughquag" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWF4" name="Roxbury" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWE1" name="Sharon" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWF1" name="South Canaan" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43074SWG4" name="South Sandisfield" parent="q43074SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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parent="q43074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWH1" name="Winsted" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074NWG4" name="Woodbury" parent="q42074NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>