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 word Metamorphism comes from the Greek: Meta = change, Morph = form, so. metamorphism means to change form. In geology this refers to the changes in mineral. assemblage and texture that result from subjecting a rock to pressures and temperatures. different from those under which the rock originally formed.