<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="h0316" name="Mobile - Tombigbee" parent="h03" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h03" name="South Atlantic-Gulf" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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="h031601" name="Black Warrior - Tombigbee" parent="h0316" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h031602" name="Mobile Bay- Tombigbee" parent="h0316" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="fUS01" name="Alabama" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q32088SW" name="Atmore" parent="q32088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31088NW" name="Bay Minette" parent="q31088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090SE" name="Biloxi" parent="q31090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NE" name="Birmingham North" parent="q34088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SE" name="Birmingham South" parent="q34088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32090SE" name="Citronelle" parent="q32090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35090NE" name="Corinth" parent="q35090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33090NE" name="De Kalb" parent="q33090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33088NW" name="Demopolis" parent="q33088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34090NW" name="Grenada" parent="q34090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SE" name="Guntersville" parent="q35088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35088SW" name="Haleyville" parent="q35088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088NW" name="Jasper" parent="q34088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34090SW" name="Kosciusko" parent="q34090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33090SE" name="Meridian" parent="q33090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS28" name="Mississippi" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q31090NE" name="Mobile" parent="q31090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32088NW" name="Monroeville" parent="q32088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35090SW" name="Oxford" parent="q35090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31088SW" name="Pensacola" parent="q31088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33088SW" name="Selma" parent="q33088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34090SE" name="Starkville" parent="q34090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35090SE" name="Tupelo" parent="q35090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34088SW" name="Tuscaloosa" parent="q34088" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32090NE" name="Waynesboro" parent="q32090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34090NE" name="West Point" parent="q34090" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>