<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="h18060003" name="Carrizo Plain" parent="h180600" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h180600" name="Central California Coastal" parent="h1806" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1806" name="Central California Coastal" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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><rt><term thcode="1" code="q35120NWE1" name="Ballinger Canyon" parent="q35120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1637" name="Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWB4" name="Caliente Mountain" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p2958" name="Caliente Wilderness Study Area" parent="p17" scope="Wilderness Study Area"/><term thcode="1" code="q36122SEH2" name="California Valley" parent="q36122SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWA3" name="Chimineas Ranch" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q35120NWD1" name="Cuyama" parent="q35120NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWD4" name="Elkhorn Hills" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWD3" name="Fellows" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f06029" name="Kern" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q36122SEH1" name="La Panza NE" parent="q36122SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWA1" name="Las Yeguas Ranch" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWE4" name="Maricopa" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWB2" name="Mckittrick Summit" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWB3" name="Painted Rock" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWC3" name="Panorama Hills" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWC2" name="Reward" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f06079" name="San Luis Obispo" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWA2" name="Simmler" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120SWC4" name="Wells Ranch" parent="q36120SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>