<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="f01115" name="Saint Clair" parent="fUS01" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS01" name="Alabama" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><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="q34088NED3" name="Argo" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEF2" name="Ashville" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NE" name="Birmingham North" parent="q34088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SE" name="Birmingham South" parent="q34088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03150202" name="Cahaba" parent="h031502" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEE4" name="Cooks Springs" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEG2" name="Cox Gap" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEH1" name="Dunaway Mountain" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEH3" name="Francis Mill" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEF1" name="Hyatt Gap" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEF1" name="Laniers" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NED4" name="Leeds" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03160111" name="Locust" parent="h031601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h03150106" name="Middle Coosa" parent="h031501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEE3" name="Odenville" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEH2" name="Ohatchee" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEF4" name="Pell City" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEG3" name="Ragland" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NED2" name="Remlap" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEG4" name="Riverside" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEG1" name="Sleeping Giants" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEE2" name="Springville" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEG1" name="Steele" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SEE1" name="Vincent" parent="q34088SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NEF3" name="Wattsville" parent="q34088NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>