<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="h18090205" name="Indian Wells-Searles Valleys" parent="h180902" scope="hydrologic unit"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h180902" name="Northern Mojave" parent="h1809" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h1809" name="Northern Mojave-Mono Lake" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h18" name="California" 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120NEH4" name="Horse Canyon" parent="q36120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f06027" name="Inyo" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="p1206" name="Inyo National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWB3" name="Inyokern" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWB4" name="Inyokern SE" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f06029" name="Kern" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="p2324" name="Kiavah Wilderness" parent="p27" scope="Wilderness"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118SWD1" name="Klinker Mountain" parent="q36118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120NEH2" name="Lamont Peak" parent="q36120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWG3" name="Layton Spring" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 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name="San Bernardino" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWF3" name="Searles Lake" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="p1264" name="Sequoia National Forest" parent="p12" scope="National Forest"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWF1" name="Slate Range Crossing" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118SWG2" name="Slocum Mountain" parent="q36118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWE4" name="Spangler Hills East" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWD4" name="Spangler Hills West" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWF2" name="Trona East" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWE2" name="Trona West" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f06107" name="Tulare" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118SWB3" name="Upper Centennial Flat" parent="q37118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWB1" name="Volcano Peak" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36120NEH3" name="Walker Pass" parent="q36120NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118SWE1" name="West of Black Hills" parent="q36118SW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWE3" name="Westend" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWC2" name="White Hills" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>