<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="h16060014" name="Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys" parent="h160600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h160600" name="Central Nevada Desert Basins" parent="h1606" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1606" name="Central Nevada Desert Basins" parent="h16" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h16" name="Great Basin" 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><rt><term thcode="1" code="q39116SWD3" name="Adaven" parent="q39116SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37116NWB1" name="Aysees Peak" parent="q37116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39116SWC4" name="Badger Gulch" parent="q39116SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38116SWF2" name="Badger Spring" parent="q38116SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38118NEH4" name="Belted Peak" parent="q38118NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37116NWE3" name="Black Hills NW" parent="q37116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38116NWA2" name="Black Top" parent="q38116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37116NWF1" name="Burro Basin" parent="q37116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NEH3" name="Camp Desert Rock" parent="q37118NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NEH2" name="Cane Spring" parent="q37118NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38116SWB1" name="Cattle Spring" parent="q38116SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37116SWC2" name="Charleston Peak" parent="q37116SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f32003" name="Clark" parent="fUS32" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q38116NWF1" name="Coal Valley Reservoir" parent="q38116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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code="q37116NWA3" name="Mercury" parent="q37116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37116NWB3" name="Mercury NE" parent="q37116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37116NWB4" name="Mercury SE" parent="q37116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NEG1" name="Mine Mountain" parent="q37118NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38118NEH3" name="Monotony Valley" parent="q38118NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38116NWD3" name="Monte Mountain" parent="q38116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2620" name="Mount Charleston Wilderness" parent="p14" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q38116NWE3" name="Mount Irish" parent="q38116NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37116SWA1" name="Mount Stirling" parent="q37116SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p3142" name="Mount Stirling 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