<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="fUS34" name="New Jersey" 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 areas focused on the US"/></bt><nt><term thcode="1" code="f34001" name="Atlantic" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34003" name="Bergen" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34005" name="Burlington" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34007" name="Camden" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34009" name="Cape May" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34011" name="Cumberland" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34013" name="Essex" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34015" name="Gloucester" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34017" name="Hudson" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34019" name="Hunterdon" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34021" name="Mercer" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34023" name="Middlesex" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34025" name="Monmouth" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34027" name="Morris" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34029" name="Ocean" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34031" name="Passaic" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34033" name="Salem" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34035" name="Somerset" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34037" name="Sussex" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34039" name="Union" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f34041" name="Warren" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h0204" name="Delaware" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="a308" name="Early Mesozoic basin aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q42074" name="Hartford" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0203" name="Lower Hudson-Long Island" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q41074" name="New York" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a416" name="New York and New England carbonate-rock aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q41076" name="Newark" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a205" name="Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="a417" name="Piedmont and Blue Ridge carbonate-rock aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="a611" name="Piedmont and Blue Ridge crystalline-rock aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q39076" name="Salisbury" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42076" name="Scranton" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0202" name="Upper Hudson" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="a502" name="Valley and Ridge aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="a505" name="Valley and Ridge carbonate-rock aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076" name="Wilmington" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>