<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="a204" name="Southeastern Coastal Plain aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="aroot" name="US Aquifers" parent="fUS" scope="Aquifers of the 48 conterminous United States, Hawaii, Puerto Ri"/><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="fUS01" name="Alabama" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q32088" name="Andalusia" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084" name="Athens" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082" name="Augusta" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088" name="Birmingham" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36090" name="Blytheville" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1647" name="Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="p1670" name="Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q36088" name="Columbia" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1702" name="Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q32086" name="Dothan" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37090" name="Dyersburg" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1721" name="Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080" name="Florence" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088" name="Gadsden" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34080" name="Georgetown" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS13" name="Georgia" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS17" name="Illinois" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS21" name="Kentucky" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q33084" name="Macon" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33090" name="Meridian" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS28" name="Mississippi" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q33088" name="Montgomery" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS37" name="North Carolina" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="p1438" name="Ocmulgee National Monument" parent="p28" scope="National Monument"/><term thcode="1" code="q38090" name="Paducah" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33086" name="Phenix City" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="ar200" name="Semiconsolidated sand aquifers" parent="art" scope="aquifer rock type"/><term thcode="1" code="p1267" name="Shawnee National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS45" name="South Carolina" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082" name="Spartanburg" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1276" name="Sumter National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="p1279" name="Talladega National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS47" name="Tennessee" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="p2006" name="Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="p1283" name="Tombigbee National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q35090" name="Tupelo" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1287" name="Tuskegee National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q34090" name="West Point" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1302" name="William B. Bankhead National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/></rt></descriptor>