<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="h1003" name="Missouri-Marias" parent="h10" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h10" name="Missouri" 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="h100302" name="Marias" parent="h1003" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h100301" name="Upper Missouri" parent="h1003" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q48112SE" name="Belt" parent="q48112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46112NW" name="Bozeman" parent="q46112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47114SE" name="Butte North" parent="q47114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47112NW" name="Canyon Ferry Dam" parent="q47112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49112NE" name="Chester" parent="q49112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48114NE" name="Choteau" parent="q48114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49112SW" name="Conrad" parent="q49112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49114NE" name="Cut Bank" parent="q49114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48114SE" name="Dearborn River" parent="q48114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47114NE" name="Elliston" parent="q47114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48112NE" name="Fort Benton" parent="q48112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48112NW" name="Great Falls North" parent="q48112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48112SW" name="Great Falls South" parent="q48112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49114SW" name="Hungry Horse Reservoir" parent="q49114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46112NE" name="Livingston" parent="q46112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49112SE" name="Lonesome Lake" parent="q49112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS30" name="Montana" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q47112SE" name="Ringling" parent="q47112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49114NW" name="Saint Mary" parent="q49114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48114SW" name="Seeley Lake" parent="q48114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q48114NW" name="Swan Peak" parent="q48114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49112NW" name="Sweet Grass Hills" parent="q49112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47112SW" name="Townsend" parent="q47112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q49114SE" name="Valier" parent="q49114" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47112NE" name="White Sulphur Springs" parent="q47112" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>