<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="q33106NW" name="Alamogordo" parent="q33106" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q33106" name="Carlsbad" 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 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scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWF3" name="Chimney Lake" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWC1" name="Cloudcroft" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWF4" name="Cornucopia Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWB4" name="Culp Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWA3" name="Deadman Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWG2" name="Dunken" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWC4" name="El Paso Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWF1" name="Elk" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWD1" name="Harvey Ranch" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWB1" name="High Rolls" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWG3" name="Lewis Peak" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWH3" name="Lewis Peak NE" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWE1" name="Mayhill" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWH2" name="Meadow Hill" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWE4" name="Pinon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWG4" name="Pinon Ranch" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWA4" name="Pipeline Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWF2" name="Robertson Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWC3" name="Rogers Ruins" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWD2" name="Sacramento" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWB2" name="Sacramento Peak" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWH1" name="Singer Lake" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWD4" name="Surveyors Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWG1" name="Thimble Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33106NWE2" name="Woodson Canyon" parent="q33106NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f35005" name="Chaves" parent="fUS35" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f35035" name="Otero" parent="fUS35" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1305" name="Rio Grande closed basins" parent="h13" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="h1306" name="Upper Pecos" parent="h13" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>