<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="fUS45" name="South Carolina" 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="f45001" name="Abbeville" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45003" name="Aiken" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45005" name="Allendale" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45007" name="Anderson" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45009" name="Bamberg" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45011" name="Barnwell" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45013" name="Beaufort" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45015" name="Berkeley" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45017" name="Calhoun" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45019" name="Charleston" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45021" name="Cherokee" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45023" name="Chester" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45025" name="Chesterfield" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45027" name="Clarendon" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45029" name="Colleton" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45031" name="Darlington" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45033" name="Dillon" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45035" name="Dorchester" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45037" name="Edgefield" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45039" name="Fairfield" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45041" name="Florence" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45043" name="Georgetown" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45045" name="Greenville" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45047" name="Greenwood" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45049" name="Hampton" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45051" name="Horry" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45053" name="Jasper" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45055" name="Kershaw" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45057" name="Lancaster" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45059" name="Laurens" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45061" name="Lee" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45063" name="Lexington" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45067" name="Marion" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45069" name="Marlboro" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45065" name="McCormick" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45071" name="Newberry" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45073" name="Oconee" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45075" name="Orangeburg" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45077" name="Pickens" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45079" name="Richland" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45081" name="Saluda" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45083" name="Spartanburg" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45085" name="Sumter" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45087" name="Union" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45089" name="Williamsburg" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f45091" name="York" parent="fUS45" scope="county"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q34084" name="Athens" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34082" name="Augusta" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36082" name="Charlotte" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0305" name="Edisto-Santee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q35080" name="Florence" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34080" name="Georgetown" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35084" name="Greenville" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33080" name="James Island" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36084" name="Knoxville" 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="h0306" name="Ogeechee-Savannah" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0304" name="Pee Dee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="a611" name="Piedmont and Blue Ridge crystalline-rock aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q33082" name="Savannah" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a204" name="Southeastern Coastal Plain aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="q35082" name="Spartanburg" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a111" name="Surficial aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="h0601" name="Upper Tennessee" parent="h06" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>