<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="q36118NW" name="Ridgecrest" parent="q36118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q36118" name="Trona" 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="q36118NWC1" name="Airport Lake" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWD2" name="Burro Canyon" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWF4" name="Christmas Canyon" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWG2" name="Copper Queen Canyon" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWA4" name="Freeman Junction" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWE1" name="Homewood Canyon" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWB3" name="Inyokern" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWB4" name="Inyokern SE" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWG3" name="Layton Spring" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWA1" name="Little Lake" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWD3" name="Lone Butte" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWG1" name="Manly Fall" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWH1" name="Manly Peak" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWD1" name="Mountain Springs Canyon" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWA2" name="Ninemile Canyon" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWA3" name="Owens Peak" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWB2" name="Pearsonville" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWH4" name="Pilot Knob Valley East" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWG4" name="Pilot Knob Valley West" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWC3" name="Ridgecrest North" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWC4" name="Ridgecrest South" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWF3" name="Searles Lake" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWF1" name="Slate Range Crossing" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWH2" name="Sourdough Spring" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWE4" name="Spangler Hills East" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWD4" name="Spangler Hills West" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWF2" name="Trona East" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWE2" name="Trona West" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWB1" name="Volcano Peak" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWE3" name="Westend" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWC2" name="White Hills" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q36118NWH3" name="Wingate Pass" parent="q36118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="f06027" name="Inyo" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f06029" name="Kern" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1809" name="Northern Mojave-Mono Lake" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f06071" name="San Bernardino" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f06107" name="Tulare" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1803" name="Tulare-Buena Vista Lakes" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/></rt></descriptor>