<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="f13073" name="Columbia" parent="fUS13" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS13" name="Georgia" 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="q34084NEF4" name="Appling" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SEH1" name="Augusta West" parent="q34084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SEF2" name="Avondale" parent="q34084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060108" name="Brier" parent="h030601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NE" name="Clark Hill Lake" parent="q34084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEG3" name="Clarks Hill" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEG4" name="Evans" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p534" name="Fort Gordon" parent="p23" scope="Army"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SEG1" name="Grovetown" parent="q34084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SEF1" name="Harlem" parent="q34084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p339" name="J. Strom Thurmond Lake" parent="p19" scope="Army Corps of Engineers"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEF3" name="Leah" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060105" name="Little" parent="h030601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEH4" name="Martinez" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060106" name="Middle Savannah" parent="h030601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="p1276" name="Sumter National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SE" name="Thomson" parent="q34084" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084SEE1" name="Thomson East" parent="q34084SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060103" name="Upper Savannah" parent="h030601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEE4" name="Winfield" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34084NEE3" name="Woodlawn" parent="q34084NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>