<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="fUS22" name="Louisiana" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><bt><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 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name="Plaquemines" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22077" name="Pointe Coupee" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22079" name="Rapides" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22081" name="Red River" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22083" name="Richland" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22085" name="Sabine" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22087" name="Saint Bernard" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22089" name="Saint Charles" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22091" name="Saint Helena" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22093" name="Saint James" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22095" name="Saint John the Baptist" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22097" name="Saint Landry" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22099" name="Saint Martin" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22101" name="Saint Mary" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22103" name="Saint Tammany" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22105" name="Tangipahoa" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22107" name="Tensas" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22109" name="Terrebonne" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22111" name="Union" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22113" name="Vermilion" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22115" name="Vernon" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22117" name="Washington" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22119" name="Webster" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22121" name="West Baton Rouge" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term thcode="1" code="f22123" name="West Carroll" parent="fUS22" scope="Parish"/><term 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name="Hattiesburg" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33092" name="Jackson" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31094" name="Lake Charles" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0808" name="Louisiana Coastal" parent="h08" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0809" name="Lower Mississippi" parent="h08" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0806" name="Lower Mississippi - Big Black" parent="h08" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0803" name="Lower Mississippi - Yazoo" parent="h08" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0807" name="Lower Mississippi-Lake Maurepas" parent="h08" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0804" name="Lower Red - Ouachita" parent="h08" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="a109" name="Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="a203" name="Mississippi embayment aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090" name="Mobile" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32092" name="Natchez" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q30092" name="New Orleans" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32096" name="Palestine" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0318" name="Pearl" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q30094" name="Port Arthur" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h1114" name="Red-Sulphur" parent="h11" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1201" name="Sabine" parent="h12" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q33094" name="Shreveport" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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