<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="f13103" name="Effingham" 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="q33082NWF4" name="Brighton" parent="q33082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWE3" name="Eden" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWE1" name="Egypt" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWE2" name="Guyton" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWH2" name="Hardeeville" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWG1" name="Hardeeville NW" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082NWE4" name="Kildare" parent="q33082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWD1" name="Leefield" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060202" name="Lower Ogeechee" parent="h030602" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060109" name="Lower Savannah" parent="h030601" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWF3" name="Meldrim" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWF4" name="Meldrim SE" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWE4" name="Meldrim SW" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03060204" name="Ogeechee Coastal" parent="h030602" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082NWD4" name="Oliver" parent="q33082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082NWG4" name="Pineland" parent="q33082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWG3" name="Port Wentworth" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWG2" name="Rincon" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SW" name="Savannah" parent="q33082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1963" name="Savannah National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWF1" name="Springfield North" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWF2" name="Springfield South" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082SWD2" name="Stilson" parent="q33082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082NW" name="Sylvania" parent="q33082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>