<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="h1108" name="Upper Canadian" parent="h11" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h11" name="Arkansas-White-Red" 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="h110800" name="Upper Canadian" parent="h1108" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q38106SW" name="Alamosa" parent="q38106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37104NW" name="Capulin Mountain" parent="q37104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37104SW" name="Clayton" parent="q37104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS08" name="Colorado" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q36106SE" name="Conchas Lake" parent="q36106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36104NW" name="Mosquero" parent="q36104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS35" name="New Mexico" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q37106NE" name="Raton" parent="q37106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36106NE" name="Roy" parent="q36106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36106NW" name="Santa Fe" parent="q36106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35106NE" name="Santa Rosa" parent="q35106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37106SE" name="Springer" parent="q37106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37106SW" name="Taos" parent="q37106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS48" name="Texas" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q35104NW" name="The Caprock" parent="q35104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38106SE" name="Trinidad" parent="q38106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36104SW" name="Tucumcari" parent="q36104" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37106NW" name="Wheeler Peak" parent="q37106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>