<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="q37118NW" name="Saline Valley" parent="q37118" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="q37118" name="Death Valley" 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="q37118NWB4" name="Cerro Gordo Peak" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWF4" name="Cottonwood Canyon" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWB3" name="Craig Canyon" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWA4" name="Dolomite" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWF2" name="Dry Bone Canyon" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWD1" name="Dry Mountain" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWF3" name="East of Sand Flat" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWF1" name="East of Tin Mountain" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWB1" name="East of Waucoba Canyon" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWG2" name="Fall Canyon" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWG1" name="Grapevine Peak" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWH4" name="Grotto Canyon" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWE4" name="Harris Hill" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWD4" name="Jackass Canyon" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWB2" name="Lower Warm Springs" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWG3" name="Mesquite Flat" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWC4" name="Nelson Range" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWA3" name="New York Butte" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWA2" name="Pat Keyes Canyon" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWC1" name="Saline Peak" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWE3" name="Sand Flat" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWG4" name="Stovepipe Wells" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWH3" name="Stovepipe Wells NE" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWD2" name="Teakettle Junction" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWH2" name="Thimble Peak" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWE1" name="Tin Mountain" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWD3" name="Ubehebe Peak" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWH1" name="Wahguyhe Peak" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWA1" name="Waucoba Canyon" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWC2" name="West of Teakettle Junction" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWC3" name="West of Ubehebe Peak" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q37118NWE2" name="White Top Mountain" parent="q37118NW" scope="quadrangle 1:24,000 scale"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="h1606" name="Central Nevada Desert Basins" parent="h16" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f32009" name="Esmeralda" parent="fUS32" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="f06027" name="Inyo" parent="fUS06" scope="county"/><term thcode="1" code="h1809" name="Northern Mojave-Mono Lake" parent="h18" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><term thcode="1" code="f32023" name="Nye" parent="fUS32" scope="county"/></rt></descriptor>