<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). 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scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEA2" name="Picacho Mountain" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEC3" name="San Miguel" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEC2" name="Tortugas Mountain" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEE1" name="White Sands" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEF1" name="White Sands NE" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SEF2" name="White Sands SE" parent="q33108SE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f35013" name="Dona Ana" parent="fUS35" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f48141" name="El Paso" parent="fUS48" 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 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