<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="p1515" name="Bering Land Bridge National Preserve" parent="p30" scope="National Preserve"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="p30" name="National Preserve NPS" parent="pNPS" scope="Type of land area"/><term thcode="1" code="pNPS" name="NPS" parent="proot" scope="Federal land areas administered by NPS"/><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="q66165A4" name="Bendeleben A-4" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165B2" name="Bendeleben B-2" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165B3" name="Bendeleben B-3" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165B4" name="Bendeleben B-4" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165B5" name="Bendeleben B-5" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165C2" name="Bendeleben C-2" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165C3" name="Bendeleben C-3" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165C4" name="Bendeleben C-4" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165C5" name="Bendeleben C-5" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165D2" name="Bendeleben D-2" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165D3" name="Bendeleben D-3" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165D4" name="Bendeleben D-4" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165D5" name="Bendeleben D-5" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66165D6" name="Bendeleben D-6" parent="q66165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="h19050202" name="Goodhope-Spafarief Bay" parent="h190502" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h19050105" name="Imuruk Basin" parent="h190501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165A3" name="Kotzebue A-3" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165A4" name="Kotzebue A-4" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165A5" name="Kotzebue A-5" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165A6" name="Kotzebue A-6" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165B4" name="Kotzebue B-4" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165B5" name="Kotzebue B-5" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165B6" name="Kotzebue B-6" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165C4" name="Kotzebue C-4" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165C5" name="Kotzebue C-5" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67165C6" name="Kotzebue C-6" parent="q67165" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="h19050104" name="Nome" parent="h190501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="f02180" name="Nome" parent="fUS02" scope="Census area"/><term thcode="1" code="f02188" name="Northwest Arctic" parent="fUS02" scope="Borough"/><term thcode="1" code="h19050103" name="Norton Bay" parent="h190501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q67168A1" name="Shishmaref A-1" parent="q67168" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67168A2" name="Shishmaref A-2" parent="q67168" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67168A3" name="Shishmaref A-3" parent="q67168" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67168A4" name="Shishmaref A-4" parent="q67168" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67168B1" name="Shishmaref B-1" parent="q67168" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q67168B2" name="Shishmaref B-2" parent="q67168" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="h19050201" name="Shismaref" parent="h190502" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q66169C4" name="Teller C-4" parent="q66169" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66169C5" name="Teller C-5" parent="q66169" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66169D1" name="Teller D-1" parent="q66169" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66169D2" name="Teller D-2" parent="q66169" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66169D3" name="Teller D-3" parent="q66169" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66169D4" name="Teller D-4" parent="q66169" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66169D5" name="Teller D-5" parent="q66169" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q66169D6" name="Teller D-6" parent="q66169" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/></rt></descriptor>