<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="q28100NE" name="Alice" parent="q28100" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q28100" name="Laredo" parent="qroot" scope="quadrangle 1:250,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="qroot" name="USGS Quadrangles" parent="fUS" scope="quadrangle"/><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="q28100NEH2" name="Alice North" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEH3" name="Alice South" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEG3" name="Ben Bolt NW" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEH4" name="Ben Bolt SE" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEE4" name="Benavides" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEF3" name="Benavides NE" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEE3" name="Benavides NW" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term 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code="q28100NEA4" name="Mills Bennett SW" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEG4" name="Palito Blanco" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NED3" name="Parrilla Creek NE" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEC3" name="Parrilla Creek NW" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NED4" name="Parrilla Creek SE" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEC4" name="Parrilla Creek SW" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEE2" name="Rosita" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEF1" name="Rosita NE" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q28100NEE1" name="Rosita NW" parent="q28100NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" 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name="Nueces-Southwestern Texas Coastal" parent="h12" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1308" name="Rio Grande-Falcon" parent="h13" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f48479" name="Webb" parent="fUS48" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>