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, Windham County, Connecticut History. THE township of Sterling occupies the southeast corner of the county, being bounded on the north by Killingly, east by Rhode Island, south by Voluntown (formerly a town of Windham county, but recently transferred to New London county), and west by Plainfield. The town is nine miles long from north to south, and has an average width of three miles.