<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="h17110016" name="Deschutes" parent="h171100" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h171100" name="Puget Sound" parent="h1711" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1711" name="Puget Sound" 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="q47124NEE2" name="Bald Hill" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NED3" name="Bernier Creek" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEB2" name="Bucoda" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEB1" name="East Olympia" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEF2" name="Eatonville" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p545" name="Fort Lewis Military Reservation" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="p1194" name="Gifford Pinchot National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q48124SEB4" name="Lacey" parent="q48124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NED2" name="Lake Lawrence" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53041" name="Lewis" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEA1" name="Maytown" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p597" name="Nap of the Earth Army Helicopter Training Area" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEE3" name="Newaukum Lake" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEC1" name="Tenalquot Prairie" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEF3" name="The Rockies" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f53067" name="Thurston" parent="fUS53" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q48124SEA4" name="Tumwater" parent="q48124SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47124NEC2" name="Vail" parent="q47124NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>