Investigating Mobile Pastoralist Landscapes in North East Iran: The Contribution of Remote Sensing

The Gorgān Plain, located in the province of Golestan in northeast Iran, encompasses several different environmental zones. Rainfall averages 800 mm per year in the foothills immediately to the north of the Ālborz mountain chain, and decreases significantly to circa 200 mm per year as one moves nort...

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Hauptverfasser: Kristen Hopper, Hamid Omrani Rekavandi
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Zusammenfassung:The Gorgān Plain, located in the province of Golestan in northeast Iran, encompasses several different environmental zones. Rainfall averages 800 mm per year in the foothills immediately to the north of the Ālborz mountain chain, and decreases significantly to circa 200 mm per year as one moves north into the steppe near the Ātrak River (Khormali and Kehl 2011: 111). The Gorgān River, dissecting the plain from east to west, represents a rough natural boundary between the well-watered primarily agricultural landscape of the southern half of the plain, and the increasingly arid steppe in the north. In the Sasanian Period
DOI:10.2307/jj.15136052.12