<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="fUS54" name="West Virginia" 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="Greenbrier" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54027" name="Hampshire" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54029" name="Hancock" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54031" name="Hardy" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54033" name="Harrison" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54035" name="Jackson" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54037" name="Jefferson" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54039" name="Kanawha" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54041" name="Lewis" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54043" name="Lincoln" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54045" name="Logan" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54049" name="Marion" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f54051" name="Marshall" parent="fUS54" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" 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and Blue Ridge crystalline-rock aquifers" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="h0207" name="Potomac" parent="h02" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="q38080" name="Roanoke" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h0503" name="Upper Ohio" parent="h05" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h0601" name="Upper Tennessee" parent="h06" 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"/></rt></descriptor>