Alexandria Digital Library Feature Thesaurus
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Alexandria Digital Library Feature Thesaurus
Contributor(s): David Germano (edited from ADL web site).
See http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/gazetteer/FeatureTypes/ver070302/index.htm for this and other views of the ADL Feature Type Theasuarus. This is a hierarchical view of the "preferred terms".
administrative areas
- cadastral areas
- military areas
- political areas
- countries
- countries, 1st order divisions
- countries, 2nd order divisions
- countries, 3rd order divisions
- countries, 4th order divisions
- multinational entities
- populated places
- cities
- capitals
- cities
- postal areas
- school districts
- statistical areas
- census areas
- Metropolitan Statistical Areas
- territorial waters
- tribal areas
hydrographic features
- aquifers
- bays
- fjords
- channels
- drainage basins
- estuaries
- floodplains
- gulfs
- guts
- ice masses
- glacier features
- lakes
- seas
- oceans
- ocean currents
- ocean regions
- oceans
- streams
- rivers
- bends (river)
- rapids
- waterfalls
- springs (hydrographic)
- rivers
- thermal features
land parcels
manmade features
- agricultural sites
- buildings
- capitol buildings
- commercial sites
- industrial sites
- * power generation sites
- court houses
- institutional sites
- correctional facilities
- educational facilities
- medical facilities
- religious facilities
- library buildings
- museum buildings
- post office buildings
- research facilities
- data collection facilities
- residential sites
- housing areas
- mobile home parks
- cemeteries
- disposal sites
- firebreaks
- fisheries
- fortifications
- historical sites
- archaeological sites
- hydrographic structures
- breakwaters
- canals
- dam sites
- gaging stations
- harbors
- marinas
- levees
- offshore platforms
- piers
- reservoirs
- waterworks
- launch facilities
- mine sites
- monuments
- oil fields
- parks
- viewing locations
- recreational facilities
- amusement parks
- camps
- performance sites
- sports facilities
- reference locations
- research areas
- ecological research sites
- paleontological sites
- reserves
- storage structures
- telecommunication features
- towers
- transportation features
- airport features
- heliports
- seaplane bases
- aqueducts
- bridges
- cableways
- locks
- parking sites
- pipelines
- railroad features
- roadways
- trails
- tunnels
- airport features
- wells
- windmills
physiographic features
- alluvial fans
- arroyos
- badlands
- banks (hydrographic)
- bars (physiographic)
- basins
- storage basins
- beaches
- bights
- capes
- caves
- cirques
- cliffs
- craters
- deltas
- dunes
- flats
- gaps
- isthmuses
- karst areas
- ledges
- massifs
- mesas
- mineral deposit areas
- moraines
- mountains
- continental divides
- mountain ranges
- mountain summits
- ridges
- drumlins
- natural rock formations
- arches (natural formation)
- plains
- plateaus
- playas
- reefs
- coral reefs
- seafloor features
- abyssal features
- continental margins
- fracture zones
- hydrothermal vents
- ocean trenches
- seamounts
- submarine canyons
- tectonic features
- earthquake features
- faults
- fault zones
- rift zones
- folds (geologic)
- anticlines
- synclines
- valleys
- canyons
- volcanic features
- lava fields
- volcanoes
regions
- agricultural regions
- biogeographic regions
- barren lands
- deserts
- forests
- petrified forests
- rain forests
- woods
- grasslands
- habitats
- jungles
- oases
- shrublands
- snow regions
- tundras
- wetlands
- climatic regions
- coastal zones
- economic regions
- land regions
- continents
- islands
- archipelagos
- subcontinents
- linguistic regions
- map regions
- chart regions
- map quadrangle regions
- UTM zones