<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="h170501" name="Middle Snake-Boise" parent="h1705" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h1705" name="Middle Snake" parent="h17" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h17" name="Pacific Northwest" 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="h17050112" name="Boise-Mores" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050102" name="Bruneau" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050118" name="Bully" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050101" name="C. J. Idaho" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050109" name="Crooked-Rattlesnake" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050106" name="East Little Owyhee. Nevada," parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050108" name="Jordan" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050114" name="Lower Boise" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050117" name="Lower Malheur" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050110" name="Lower Owyhee" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050121" name="Middle Fork Payette" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050107" name="Middle Owyhee" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050115" name="Middle Snake-Payette" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050103" name="Middle Snake-Succor" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050123" name="North Fork Payette" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050111" name="North and Middle Forks Boise" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050122" name="Payette" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050113" name="South Fork Boise" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050105" name="South Fork Owyhee" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050120" name="South Fork Payette" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050116" name="Upper Malheur" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050104" name="Upper Owyhee" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050124" name="Weiser" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h17050119" name="Willow" parent="h170501" scope="hydrologic unit"/></nt></descriptor>