<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="fUS28" name="Mississippi" 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 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name="Clay" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28027" name="Coahoma" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28029" name="Copiah" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28031" name="Covington" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28033" name="DeSoto" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28035" name="Forrest" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28037" name="Franklin" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28039" name="George" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28041" name="Greene" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28043" name="Grenada" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28045" name="Hancock" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28047" name="Harrison" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28049" name="Hinds" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28051" name="Holmes" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28053" name="Humphreys" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28055" name="Issaquena" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28057" name="Itawamba" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28059" name="Jackson" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28061" name="Jasper" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28063" name="Jefferson" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28065" name="Jefferson Davis" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28067" name="Jones" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28069" name="Kemper" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28071" name="Lafayette" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28073" name="Lamar" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28075" name="Lauderdale" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" 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code="f28155" name="Webster" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28157" name="Wilkinson" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28159" name="Winston" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28161" name="Yalobusha" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f28163" name="Yazoo" parent="fUS28" scope="county"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q31092" name="Baton Rouge" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a201" name="Coastal lowlands aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q34092" name="Greenwood" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32090" name="Hattiesburg" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35092" name="Helena" 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" 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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="h0316" name="Mobile - Tombigbee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q32092" name="Natchez" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0317" name="Pascagoula" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0318" name="Pearl" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="a204" name="Southeastern Coastal Plain aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q35090" name="Tupelo" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34090" name="West Point" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>