Continental Drift, Sea Floor Spreading and Plate Tectonics. Tectonic Theories. Tectonic theories attempt to explain why mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes occur where they do, the ages of deformational events, and the ages and shapes of continents and ocean basins.
Sterling, Connecticut. Sterling is a town in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 3,099 at the 2000 census.
For other towns named Colchester, see Colchester (disambiguation). Colchester is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 16,068 at the 2010 census. In 2010 Colchester became the first town in Connecticut, and the 36th in the country, to be certified with the National Wildlife Federation as a Community Wildlife Habitat.