<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="f45063" name="Lexington" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="fUS45" name="South 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="q34082NW" name="Aiken" parent="q34082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWF1" name="Barr Lake" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWD1" name="Batesburg" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082SWF3" name="Chapin" parent="q35082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082SWH4" name="Columbia North" parent="q35082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03050110" name="Congaree" parent="h030501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082SWD4" name="Delmar" parent="q35082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWH2" name="Gaston" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWE1" name="Gilbert" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082SWG4" name="Irmo" parent="q35082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082SWF4" name="Lake Murray East" parent="q35082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082SWE4" name="Lake Murray West" parent="q35082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWG1" name="Lexington" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082SWE3" name="Little Mountain" parent="q35082SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03050106" name="Lower Broad" parent="h030501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWD2" name="Monetta" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082SW" name="Newberry" parent="q35082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03050203" name="North Fork Edisto" parent="h030502" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWG2" name="Pelion East" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWF2" name="Pelion West" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWG3" name="Pond Branch" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h03050109" name="Saluda" parent="h030501" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NEA2" name="Saylors Lake" parent="q34082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWE3" name="Seivern" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWH1" name="Southwest Columbia" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NEA3" name="Staley Crossroads" parent="q34082NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWE2" name="Steedman" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NE" name="Sumter" parent="q34082" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWH3" name="Swansea" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082NWF3" name="Wagener" parent="q34082NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>