### location | region | county:

Lee county
* Lee County has a good population of rattlesnakes.
* Lee County is South Carolina's largest cotton producing county
  - also the largest cotton producing county in the state
  - home to one of the largest commercial shrimping fleets in the United States
* Lee County is located in Northwest Illinois
  - southeast Iowa on the Mississippi River and the Missouri border
  - the state's fourth fastest-growing county
  - low tax county in a low tax state

Shire county
* Shire counties are divided into non-metropolitan districts.
+ Local government in England, District level, Non-metropolitan district
  * Shire counties are divided into non-metropolitan districts. Power is shared with the county council, but shared differently to the metropolitan counties when first created.

Union county
* Union County borders Cimarron County, Oklahoma on the west.
* Union County is also the smallest county in Florida
  - cattle country
  - located in southwest Iowa
+ Union County, Florida: Florida counties :: 1921 establishments
  * Union County' is a county in northern Florida. Union County is also the smallest county in Florida. The county was founded in 1921 after being cut off from Bradford County. Since Union County is the smallest county, it covers only 250 square miles.

Wake county
* Wake County is where the population is.
+ Wake County, North Carolina, Education, Colleges and Universities: 1771 establishments
  * Wake County has seven colleges and universities.

### location | region:

Crust
* Most crust contains oxygen
  - forms physical barriers
* Some crust causes erosion
  - consists of magnetites
  - contains fractures
* Some crust is part of lithospheres
  - worlds
  - crusts increase surface topography by forming pinnacles or pedicles
* are a sign of pyogenic infection
  - least susceptible to trampling damage when soils are frozen or snow covered
* can be the dominant source of fixed nitrogen in some semiarid ecosystems.
* color the earth black, apple-green, blue, and tones of red.
* floats on a shallow upper mantle.
* form and fall
  - in the nose
  - on the wings of the nose
* forms barriers
* includes asthenospheres.
* is covering.
  - pizzas
* sometimes form the bed surface for avalanches.
* stretches, warps, and cracks.

### location | region | crust:

Biological crust
* Most biological crust forms physical barriers.
* are different than chemical or physical crusts.

### location | region | crust:

Continental crust
* behaves like a body 'floating' on the denser underlying layers.
* is composed mainly of granite
  - different than crust that underlies the oceans
  - incorporated into each plate and so moves along with the plate
* is less dense and thicker than the surface of the deep ocean
  - than oceanic crust
  - mostly of granitic composition
  - much older, thicker and less dense than oceanic crust
  - older and thicker than oceanic crust
* is the geologic stuff of landmasses
  - layer that forms the continents
  - thick and high, but it's light
* is thicker than oceanic crust and tends to be less yielding
  - crust, but is less dense
  - thinkest beneath mountain ranges and extends into the mantle
  - too light to subduct and accumulates on the surface
  - typically much older than oceanic crust
* resists subduction.
* varies in p wave velocities both laterally and vertically.

Crustal plate
* is crust
* separate at divergent plate boundaries.

Cryptobiotic crust
* fragile layer of life covering undisturbed soil.
* is also extremely vulnerable to mountain bicycle and horse travel
  - the foundation of life in the high desert

Fusion crust
* Some fusion crust consists of magnetites.
* is what forms as a meteor passes through the atmosphere.

Microbiotic crust
* are important components of many aridland soils
  - intimate tangles of lichens, mosses, and cyanobacteria
* provide the major share of fixed nitrogen in desert ecosystems.