<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="p1717" name="Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge" parent="p13" scope="National Wildlife Refuge"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="p13" name="National Wildlife Refuge FWS" parent="pFWS" scope="Type of land area"/><term thcode="1" code="pFWS" name="FWS" parent="proot" scope="Federal land areas administered by FWS"/><term thcode="1" code="proot" name="Federal lands" parent="fUS" scope="Land areas administered by US Federal agencies"/><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="f34001" name="Atlantic" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076NEG4" name="Beach Haven" parent="q40076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SEF1" name="Brigantine Inlet" parent="q40076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="f34005" name="Burlington" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076NEG2" name="Forked River" parent="q40076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="h02040302" name="Great Egg Harbor" parent="h020403" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h02040301" name="Mullica-Toms" parent="h020403" scope="hydrologic unit"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076NEE4" name="New Gretna" parent="q40076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="a205" name="Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain aquifer system" parent="aroot" scope="aquifer"/><term thcode="1" code="f34029" name="Ocean" parent="fUS34" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076SEE1" name="Oceanville" parent="q40076SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076NEG3" name="Ship Bottom" parent="q40076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076NEF4" name="Tuckerton" parent="q40076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q40076NEF3" name="West Creek" parent="q40076NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>