Herder's Environment
WorldCulturalAreas of the world conducive to the spread of pastoralism (approximately 500 CE–1500 CE)
natureA world map shows the herder's environment highlighted in orange. Key regions include North America, Northern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, parts of North Africa, and sections of South America, particularly Argentina and Chile.
Herder's Environment | Approximate Form and Extent of Outcrop of Carbonate Rocks | Consolidated rock aquifers | Combination aquifers | Productive aquifers | Abyssal clay | Calcareous ooze | Continental (lithogenous) | Diatom | Radiolarian | |
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Arizona | 20.9% | 5.15% | ||||||||
Utah | 84.5% | 2.03% | ||||||||
Yukon | 100% | 83.0% | ||||||||
District of Columbia | 55.6% | |||||||||
Idaho | 88.8% | 1.85% | 6.13% | |||||||
Wyoming | 100% | 3.58% | ||||||||
Montana | 100% | 1.34% | ||||||||
North Dakota | 33.5% | 3.00% | 6.69% | |||||||
Kentucky | 1.28% | 8.30% | ||||||||
Saskatchewan | 100% | 11.0% | ||||||||
Mississippi | 99.6% | |||||||||
West Virginia | 17.2% | 1.96% | ||||||||
Nebraska | 99.5% | 75.9% | ||||||||
Missouri | 14.4% | 56.4% | ||||||||
Oregon | 3.11% | 1.21% | 1.53% | |||||||
Alabama | 4.32% | |||||||||
New Mexico | 96.3% | 4.90% | 2.15% | |||||||
Kansas | 98.4% | 8.84% | 1.62% | 5.11% | ||||||
Wisconsin | 12.5% | 1.43% | ||||||||
Michigan | 16.1% | 16.3% | ||||||||
Alberta | 100% | 6.33% | ||||||||
Connecticut | 2.14% | |||||||||
Pennsylvania | 11.6% | |||||||||
Colorado | 100% | 2.33% | 2.58% | |||||||
Nevada | 1.83% | 1.63% | 2.87% | |||||||
Georgia | 5.65% | 2.57% | 17.9% | |||||||
Manitoba | 99.9% | 2.62% | ||||||||
Oklahoma | 48.3% | 7.62% | 1.97% | 2.69% | ||||||
Tennessee | 0.744% | 17.6% | ||||||||
Arkansas | 15.9% | |||||||||
South Dakota | 27.8% | 10.3% | 6.62% | |||||||
Ohio | 15.0% | |||||||||
Indiana | 11.6% | |||||||||
Minnesota | 6.88% | 2.27% | 3.62% | |||||||
Iowa | 29.4% | 2.05% | ||||||||
Illinois | 4.93% | 33.0% | 3.68% | |||||||
Alaska | 0.152% | 4.76% | 0.351% | |||||||
Northwest Territories | 0.300% | 37.6% | 3.51% | |||||||
Florida | 8.54% | 25.3% | 1.48% | 0.488% | 2.42% | |||||
Washington | 0.612% | 1.17% | 1.71% | |||||||
Nunavut | 0.580% | 2.51% | 7.75% | |||||||
Maine | 11.9% | 1.41% | ||||||||
Nova Scotia | 29.2% | 12.7% | ||||||||
Virginia | 15.1% | 8.27% | 1.95% | |||||||
Delaware | 98.6% | 0.888% | ||||||||
Prince Edward Island | 77.5% | 100% | ||||||||
Texas | 39.6% | 2.21% | 27.0% | 0.242% | ||||||
Louisiana | 98.6% | 0.456% | 1.85% | |||||||
Hawaii | 29.4% | 7.02% | 22.4% | |||||||
North Carolina | 7.59% | 0.789% | ||||||||
New Brunswick | 11.5% | 50.2% | 1.14% | |||||||
British Columbia | 0.210% | 59.8% | 2.00% | |||||||
Newfoundland and Labrador | 24.2% | 5.25% | 4.95% | |||||||
New Jersey | 58.8% | 0.212% | ||||||||
South Carolina | 30.0% | 2.54% | 0.109% | |||||||
Massachusetts | 0.884% | 11.7% | ||||||||
New York | 3.15% | 2.58% | ||||||||
Maryland | 34.3% | 1.35% | ||||||||
Québec | 0.452% | 1.02% | 1.05% | |||||||
Ontario | 77.4% | 5.05% | 0.313% | |||||||
California | 4.23% | 1.35% | 0.884% |
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