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.
After soliciting bids from architects in the region, the committee chose Warren Richard Briggs of Bridgeport to design the building. Briggs, who studied in Paris, also built the Fairfield County Courthouse in Danbury. The Courthouse and Town Hall when finished was an imposing structure with a clock tower and a grand entrance with 14-feet wide granite steps.