<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="q46072NE" name="Megantic" parent="q46072" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q46072" name="Sherbrooke" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><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="q46072NEF4" name="Attean Pond" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEG2" name="Boundary Bald Mountain" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEC4" name="Boundary Pond" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEF2" name="Campbell Brook" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEH2" name="Canada Falls Lake" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEG4" name="Catheart Mountain" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEH3" name="Churchill Stream" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEF1" name="Fisher Ponds" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEH1" name="Foley Pond" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEG3" name="Heald Pond" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEE4" name="Holeb" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEF3" name="Jackman" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEH4" name="Long Pond" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEG1" name="Penobscot Lake" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEE2" name="Sandy Bay Mountain" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NED4" name="Skinner" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NED3" name="Skinner NE" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q46072NEE3" name="Stony Brook" parent="q46072NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f23007" name="Franklin" parent="fUS23" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h0103" name="Kennebec" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0102" name="Penobscot" parent="h01" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f23025" name="Somerset" parent="fUS23" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>