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.
This article is about the county in Connecticut. For the city in Connecticut, see New Haven, Connecticut. New Haven County is a county in the south central part of the U.S. state of Connecticut. As of the 2010 census, the population was 862,477 making it the third-most populous county in Connecticut. Two of the state's largest cities, New Haven (2nd) and Waterbury (5th), are part of New Haven County.