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.
STERLING, KANSAS, .....located in Rice County, near the center of the State, in the Arkansas Valley, on Santa Fe main line and Missouri Pacific railroads. On the Santa Fe, Nebraska-Kansas-Oklahoma, and other trails, with paved road of twenty-five miles leading from Hutchinson. Was surveyed in January 1872. Chartered as third class city and name changed from Peace to Sterling in 1875; now a city of the second class.