<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="h18" name="California" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><bt><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="h1806" name="Central California Coastal" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1801" name="Klamath-Northern California Coastal" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1808" name="North Lahontan" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1809" name="Northern Mojave-Mono Lake" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1802" name="Sacramento" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1805" name="San Francisco Bay" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1804" name="San Joaquin" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1807" name="Southern California Coastal" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1810" name="Southern Mojave-Salton Sea" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1803" name="Tulare-Buena Vista Lakes" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q42122" name="Alturas" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120" name="Bakersfield" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40122" name="Chico" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44125" name="Coos Bay" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44122" name="Crescent" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118" name="Death Valley" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33116" name="El Centro" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42125" name="Eureka" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37120" name="Fresno" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38118" name="Goldfield" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36116" name="Kingman" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43122" name="Klamath Falls" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37116" name="Las Vegas" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34120" name="Long Beach" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35120" name="Los Angeles" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41120" name="Lovelock" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38120" name="Mariposa" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q43124" name="Medford" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37122" name="Monterey" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35116" name="Needles" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41124" name="Redding" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40120" name="Reno" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q44124" name="Roseburg" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39122" name="Sacramento" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116" name="Salton Sea" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35118" name="San Bernardino" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33120" name="San Clemente Island" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33118" name="San Diego" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38124" name="San Francisco" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38122" name="San Jose" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36122" name="San Luis Obispo" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34118" name="Santa Ana" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35121" name="Santa Maria" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39124" name="Santa Rosa" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q41122" name="Susanville" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118" name="Trona" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40124" name="Ukiah" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42120" name="Vya" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120" name="Walker Lake" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q42124" name="Weed" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>