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.
1 Metamorphism, therefore occurs at temperatures and pressures higher than 200 o C and 300 MPa. 2  Rocks can be subjected to these higher temperatures and pressures as they are buried deeper in the Earth. 3  Such burial usually takes place as a result of tectonic processes such as continental collisions or subduction.