<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="h1804" name="San Joaquin" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h18" name="California" 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="h180400" name="San Joaquin" parent="h1804" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q38120NE" name="Benton Range" parent="q38120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38120SE" name="Bishop" parent="q38120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120SW" name="Bridgeport" parent="q39120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS06" name="California" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q37122SE" name="Coalinga" parent="q37122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37120NW" name="Fresno" parent="q37120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39122SW" name="Lodi" parent="q39122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37122NE" name="Mendota" parent="q37122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38122SE" name="Merced" parent="q38122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37122NW" name="Monterey" parent="q37122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38122NE" name="Oakdale" parent="q38122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39122NE" name="Placerville" parent="q39122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39122NW" name="Sacramento" parent="q39122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39122SE" name="San Andreas" parent="q39122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38122SW" name="San Jose" parent="q38122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38120SW" name="Shaver Lake" parent="q38120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q39120NW" name="Smith Valley" parent="q39120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38122NW" name="Stockton" parent="q38122" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q38120NW" name="Yosemite Valley" parent="q38120" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>