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.
Sedimentary rock can be deeply buried, subjected to heat and pressure, which over time, cause it to change its structure into a new rock, a metamorphic rock. Metamorphism is a big word meaning change. Eventually, these metamorphic rocks may be heated to the point where they again melt into magma.