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.
Copyright 1915. Copyright 1911. Copyright 1920s. In 1869, the Connecticut General Assembly passed an act giving the town of Norwich and the county of New London power to combine to erect a building for town, city and county purposes. This building would include a courthouse and would be financed by the town of Norwich and New London County. After almost three years of construction, a portion of the building was opened in 1873 when the first session of the Superior Court was held on November 11th.