<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="f37053" name="Currituck" parent="fUS37" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS37" name="North Carolina" 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="h03010205" name="Albemarle" parent="h030102" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SSA1" name="Barco" parent="q38076SS" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SSA3" name="Camden Point" parent="q38076SS" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SSA2" name="Coinjock" parent="q38076SS" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SSB1" name="Corolla" parent="q38076SS" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078NEH4" name="Creeds" parent="q37078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078SEH1" name="Currituck" parent="q37078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1701" name="Currituck National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SS" name="Currituck Sound" parent="q38076" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078SE" name="Elizabeth City" parent="q37078" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078SEG2" name="Elizabeth City" parent="q37078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SSB3" name="Jarvisburg" parent="q38076SS" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SNA4" name="Knotts Island" parent="q38076SN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SNB4" name="Knotts Island Oe E" parent="q38076SN" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078NEF4" name="Lake Drummond SE" parent="q37078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078SEG1" name="Lambs Corner" parent="q37078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1832" name="Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SSB2" name="Mossey Islands" parent="q38076SS" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078NEG4" name="Moyock" parent="q37078NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2130" name="Naval Facility Engineering Command" parent="p24" scope="Navy"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078NE" name="Norfolk" parent="q37078" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SSB4" name="Point Harbor" parent="q38076SS" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37078SEH2" name="Shiloh" parent="q37078SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38076SN" name="Virginia Beach" parent="q38076" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>