<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="h0709" name="Rock" parent="h07" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h07" name="Upper Mississippi" 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><nt><term thcode="1" code="h070900" name="Rock" parent="h0709" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q42092SE" name="Aledo" parent="q42092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NE" name="Aurora" parent="q42090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42092NE" name="Davenport" parent="q42092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090NW" name="Dixon" parent="q42090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43092NE" name="Dubuque North" parent="q43092" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SE" name="Elgin" parent="q43090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44090NE" name="Fond du Lac" parent="q44090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS17" name="Illinois" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q42090SW" name="Kewanee" parent="q42090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090NE" name="Lake Geneva" parent="q43090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44090SW" name="Madison" parent="q44090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090NW" name="Monroe" parent="q43090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44090SE" name="Oconomowoc" parent="q44090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43090SW" name="Rockford" parent="q43090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS55" name="Wisconsin" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q44090NW" name="Wisconsin Dells" parent="q44090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>