For untold millennia, the Earth has spun through space on its axis. Mighty forces of cosmic gravity pushed and pulled the planet's surface creating endless variations in topography and geology. Formations are altered by other natural forces.
Glaciers advance and retreat.
Oceans flood and recede. Rivers carve their way through piled layers of sedimentary rock, and land uplifts around them. Except for the handiwork of man and the relentless erosion, the natural features of 20th century Morgan County have been unchanged for thousands of centuries. Scattered for hundreds of miles along the fault-ridden foothills of the Blue Ridge are a series of thermal springs. This series of springs forms a belt of heat loss running along the eastern edge of the mountains.