<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="q32108NW" name="Columbus" parent="q32108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q32108" name="El Paso" 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="q32108NWF2" name="Camel Mountain" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWC2" name="Columbus" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWD1" name="Columbus NE" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWD2" name="Columbus SE" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWE2" name="Coyote Hill" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWG2" name="Guzmans Lookout Mountain" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWA2" name="Hermanas" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWA1" name="Hermanas NW" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWB2" name="Malpais Hill" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWE1" name="Mesquite Lake" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWH1" name="Mount Riley" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWH2" name="Mount Riley SE" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWC1" name="North Peak" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWF1" name="P O L Ranch" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWG1" name="Potrillo Peak" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NWB1" name="West Lime Hills" parent="q32108NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f35013" name="Dona Ana" parent="fUS35" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f35029" name="Luna" parent="fUS35" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1303" name="Rio Grande-Mimbres" parent="h13" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>