<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="p1320" name="Sheyenne National Grassland" parent="p36" scope="National Grassland"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="p36" name="National Grassland FS" parent="pFS" scope="Type of land area"/><term thcode="1" code="pFS" name="FS" parent="proot" scope="Federal land areas administered by FS"/><term thcode="1" code="proot" name="Federal lands" parent="fUS" scope="Land areas administered by US Federal agencies"/><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="q47098NWF4" name="Coburn" parent="q47098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SWF2" name="De Lamere" parent="q47098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SEA4" name="Hankinson" parent="q47098SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a304" name="Lower Cretaceous aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020204" name="Lower Sheyenne" parent="h090202" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SWF1" name="Mcleod" parent="q47098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SWE2" name="Milnor" parent="q47098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NWG4" name="Power" parent="q47098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f38073" name="Ransom" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f38077" name="Richland" parent="fUS38" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098NWE4" name="Sheldon" parent="q47098NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SWH4" name="Swan Lake" parent="q47098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SWE1" name="Venlo" parent="q47098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h09020105" name="Western Wild Rice" parent="h090201" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SWG2" name="Wyndmere" parent="q47098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q47098SWG1" name="Wyndmere NW" parent="q47098SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>