<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="h04080102" name="Kawkawlin-Pine" parent="h040801" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h040801" name="Southwestern Lake Huron" parent="h0408" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0408" name="Southwestern Lake Huron-Lake Huron" parent="h04" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h04" name="Great Lakes" 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="f26011" name="Arenac" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEH4" name="Auburn" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26017" name="Bay" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWA4" name="Bay City" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWB3" name="Bay City NE" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEG1" name="Bentley" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEH2" name="Crump" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEG2" name="Estey" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26051" name="Gladwin" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEF2" name="Hope" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWA3" name="Kawkawlin" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26111" name="Midland" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEG3" name="Midland North" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEG4" name="Midland South" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEH1" name="Mount Forest" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45084SWB4" name="Omer" parent="q45084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45084SWA4" name="Omer SW" parent="q45084SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWA2" name="Pinconning" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f26145" name="Saginaw" parent="fUS26" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWA1" name="Standish" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44084NWB1" name="Standish NE" parent="q44084NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SEH4" name="Sterling" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45086SEG4" name="Sterling SW" parent="q45086SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44086NEH3" name="Willard" parent="q44086NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>