<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="h1305" name="Rio Grande closed basins" parent="h13" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h13" name="Rio Grande" 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="h130500" name="Rio Grande closed basins" parent="h1305" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q33106NW" name="Alamogordo" parent="q33106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36108SE" name="Albuquerque" parent="q36108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35108NE" name="Belen" parent="q35108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SE" name="Carlsbad" parent="q33106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106NW" name="Carrizozo" parent="q34106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35106SW" name="Corona" parent="q35106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106SW" name="Crow Flats" parent="q33106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32106NW" name="Dell City" parent="q32106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NE" name="El Paso" parent="q32108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32106NE" name="Guadalupe Peak" parent="q32106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31106NW" name="Indian Hot Springs" parent="q31106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SE" name="Las Cruces" parent="q33108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31106SE" name="Marfa" parent="q31106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q31106NE" name="Mount Livermore" parent="q31106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS35" name="New Mexico" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108NE" name="Oscura Mountains" parent="q34108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34106SW" name="Ruidoso" parent="q34106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32106SW" name="Sierra Blanca" parent="q32106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35108SE" name="Socorro" parent="q35108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS48" name="Texas" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108SE" name="Tularosa" parent="q34108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32106SE" name="Van Horn" parent="q32106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35106NW" name="Vaughn" parent="q35106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36106SW" name="Villanueva" parent="q36106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108NE" name="White Sands" parent="q33108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>