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.
6 Fluids and Metamorphism (2)  Some of the fluid in sedimentary rock is retained surface water buried with the rocks.  Some of the fluid is released when hydrous minerals (containing water in the formula) such as clays, micas, and amphiboles, decompose and lose water as the temperature increases on burial.