<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="h04150301" name="Upper St. Lawrence" parent="h041503" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h041503" name="St. Lawrence" parent="h0415" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h0415" name="Northeastern Lake Ontario-Lake Ontario-St. Law" 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="q45076SWA2" name="Alexandria Bay" parent="q45076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45078SEF3" name="Cape Vincent North" parent="q45078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45078SEF4" name="Cape Vincent South" parent="q45078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45078SEE4" name="Cape Vincent South Oe W" parent="q45078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45078SEH3" name="Clayton" parent="q45078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45078SEG2" name="Gananoque" parent="q45078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f36045" name="Jefferson" parent="fUS36" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q45076SWA3" name="La Fargeville" parent="q45076SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q45078SEG3" name="Saint Lawrence" parent="q45078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1012" name="Saint Regis Indian Reservation" parent="p15" scope="Indian Reservations"/><term thcode="1" code="q45078SEH2" name="Thousand Island Park" parent="q45078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>