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 is located in northeast Virginia. Sterling is part of Loudoun County. Sterling has 5.48 square miles of land area and 0.03 square miles of water area. As of 2010, the total Sterling population is 27,822. Sterling median household income is $86,743 in 2008-2012. Sterling median house value is $297,300 in 2008-2012.