<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="q57161" name="Chignik" parent="qroot" scope="1:250,000 Alaska quadrangle"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="qroot" name="USGS Quadrangles" parent="fUS" scope="quadrangle"/><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="q57161A1" name="Chignik A-1" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161A2" name="Chignik A-2" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161A3" name="Chignik A-3" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161A4" name="Chignik A-4" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161A5" name="Chignik A-5" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161A6" name="Chignik A-6" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161A7" name="Chignik A-7" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161A8" name="Chignik A-8" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161B1" name="Chignik B-1" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161B2" name="Chignik B-2" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161B3" name="Chignik B-3" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161B4" name="Chignik B-4" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161B5" name="Chignik B-5" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161B6" name="Chignik B-6" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161B7" name="Chignik B-7" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161C1" name="Chignik C-1" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161C2" name="Chignik C-2" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161C3" name="Chignik C-3" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161C4" name="Chignik C-4" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161C5" name="Chignik C-5" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161C6" name="Chignik C-6" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161D1" name="Chignik D-1" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161D2" name="Chignik D-2" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161D3" name="Chignik D-3" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/><term thcode="1" code="q57161D4" name="Chignik D-4" parent="q57161" scope="1:63,360 Alaska quadrangle"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="fUS02" name="Alaska" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="f02013" name="Aleutians East" parent="fUS02" scope="Borough"/><term thcode="1" code="f02164" name="Lake and Peninsula" parent="fUS02" scope="Borough"/></rt></descriptor>