<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="h17060110" name="Lower Snake" parent="h170601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h170601" name="Lower Snake" parent="h1706" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1706" name="Lower 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><rt><term thcode="1" code="q47120NEF4" name="Ayer" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NEC4" name="Burr Canyon" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEE1" name="Clyde" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53013" name="Columbia" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NEB4" name="Connell SE" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SWH1" name="Eltopia" parent="q47120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SED1" name="Elwood" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SED2" name="Eureka" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53021" name="Franklin" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SWH2" name="Glade" parent="q47120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEA3" name="Humorist" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2321" name="Juniper Dunes Wilderness" parent="p27" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NED3" name="Kahlotus" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p365" name="Lake Sacajawea" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="p374" name="Lake Wallula" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEB2" name="Levey" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEB1" name="Levey NE" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEA2" name="Levey SW" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NED4" name="Lower Monumental Dam" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1853" name="McNary National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NEA4" name="Mesa East" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NEE4" name="Monumental Rock" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEC2" name="Page" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NEG3" name="Palouse Falls" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SWH3" name="Pasco" parent="q47120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEF1" name="Pleasant View" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEA1" name="Rye Grass Coulee" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEB3" name="Slater" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEC1" name="Snake River" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NEE3" name="Sperry" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NEG4" name="Starbuck West" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEG1" name="Waitsburg NW" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53071" name="Walla Walla" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120NEF3" name="Washtucna South" parent="q47120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47120SEC3" name="Welland" parent="q47120SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53075" name="Whitman" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>