The Austrian Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, at age 23, built his first car, the Lohner Electric Chaise. It was the worldâs first front-wheel-drive. Porscheâs second car was a hybrid, using an internal combustion engine to spin a generator that provided power to electric motors located in the wheel hubs.
burial metamorphism. (geology). A kind of regional metamorphism which affects sediments and interbedded volcanic rocks in a geosyncline without the factors of orogenesis or magmatic intrusions. 1  Facebook. 2  Twitter.
metamorphism. 1. the process of change in the form and structure of rocks by the agency of heat, water, and pressure. 2. the change of particular types of rock, as limestone into marble.Also called epigenesis. See also change. â metamorphic, adj.change in form, structure, shape, appearance, etc.oun. 1. metamorphism-change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances. anamorphism-metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals.