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. in geology, process of change in the structure, texture, or composition of rocks rock,aggregation of solid matter composed of one or more of the minerals forming the earth's crust.The scientific study of rocks is called petrology.ontact metamorphism occurs when local rocks are metamorphosed by the heat from an igneous intrusion, such as limestone turning to marble along the contact zone. Some of the changes that occur in the older rock are due simply to the heat radiated from the igneous mass and to the pressures it creates.