<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="h1303" name="Rio Grande-Mimbres" parent="h13" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><bt><term thcode="1" code="h13" name="Rio Grande" parent="hroot" scope="hydrologic region"/><term thcode="1" code="hroot" name="US hydrologic units" parent="fUS" scope="hydrologic subregion"/><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="h130302" name="Mimbres" parent="h1303" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/><term thcode="1" code="h130301" name="Rio Grande-Caballo" parent="h1303" scope="hydrologic accounting unit"/></nt><rt><term thcode="1" code="q32110SE" name="Alamo Hueco Mountains" parent="q32110" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32110NE" name="Animas" parent="q32110" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NW" name="Columbus" parent="q32108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SW" name="Deming" parent="q33108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q32108NE" name="El Paso" parent="q32108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108NW" name="Hatch" parent="q33108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108SE" name="Las Cruces" parent="q33108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33110SE" name="Lordsburg" parent="q33110" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34110SE" name="Mogollon Mountains" parent="q34110" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS35" name="New Mexico" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108NW" name="San Mateo Mountains" parent="q34108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33110NE" name="Silver City" parent="q33110" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="fUS48" name="Texas" parent="fUS" scope="state"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108SW" name="Truth or Consequences" parent="q34108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q34108SE" name="Tularosa" parent="q34108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/><term thcode="1" code="q33108NE" name="White Sands" parent="q33108" scope="quadrangle 1:100,000 scale"/></rt></descriptor>