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.
Metamorphic Rocks. Metamorphic rocks are other rocks (igneous and sedimentary) that have undergone high amount of pressure and temperature deep within the Earth. Metamorphism is the result of solidification of material under high temperature and pressure. There are two types of metamorphism, contact and regional.