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 three causes of Metamorphism in Rocks. Metamorphism in geology is when one type of rock is transformed into another type of rock called a metamorphic rock. The word metamorphic comes from the Greek words meaning âchangeâ and âform.â There are two main factors that can cause the conversion: heat, pressure.