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.
When pressure increases due to burial of a rock, and as metamorphism proceeds, the amount of pore space decreases and the intergranular fluid is slowly squeezed from the rock. 7 Fluids and Metamorphism (5)  Any fluid that escapes during metamorphism will carry with it small amounts of dissolved mineral matter.