<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="q34116NE" name="Blythe" parent="q34116" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q34116" name="Salton Sea" 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="q34116NEA2" name="Arlington Mine" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NED1" name="Big Maria Mountains NE" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEC1" name="Big Maria Mountains NW" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NED2" name="Big Maria Mountains SE" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEC2" name="Big Maria Mountains SW" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NED4" name="Blythe" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NED3" name="Blythe NE" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEH1" name="Bouse" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEG1" name="Bouse NW" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEG2" name="Bouse SW" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEH4" name="Crystal Hill" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEF4" name="Cunningham Mountain" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEE4" name="Dome Rock Mountains SW" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEA4" name="Hopkins Well" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEH2" name="Ibex Peak" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEB2" name="Inca" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEE3" name="La Paz Mountain" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEA1" name="Little Maria Mountains" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEB3" name="Mccoy Peak" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEA3" name="Mccoy Spring" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEC3" name="Mccoy Wash" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEF3" name="Middle Camp Mountain" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEE2" name="Moon Mountain" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEF1" name="Moon Mountain NE" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEF2" name="Moon Mountain SE" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEH3" name="Plomosa Pass" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEE1" name="Poston" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEG3" name="Quartzsite" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEC4" name="Ripley" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEB4" name="Roosevelt Mine" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEG4" name="South of Quartzsite" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34116NEB1" name="Styx" parent="q34116NE" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f04012" name="La Paz" parent="fUS04" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1503" name="Lower Colorado" parent="h15" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f06065" name="Riverside" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1810" name="Southern Mojave-Salton Sea" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>