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.
The original rock from which a metamorphic rock formed. A metamorphic rock composed of quartz and transformed from a protolith of quartz sandstone. Metamorphism of a broad region, usually the result of deep burial during an orogeny.A medium-to coarse-grained metamorphic rock that possesses foliation caused by the preferred orientation of large mica flakes. mineral formed by solid-state transitions under metamorphic conditions. Rock that forms when preexisting rock changes into new rock as a result of an increase in pressure and temperature and/or shearing under elevated temperatures; metamorphism occurs without the rock first becoming a melt or a sediment.