Historical Examples. 1  She had a hiccough and drops of blood oozed from the corners of her mouth. 2  Ernest turned a chuckle into a hiccough and followed Roger over to the well. 3  From across the room sounded a hiccough that ended in a dry hacking cough. 4  He say, Again mon frien' ees wrong;O-u-g-h is 'up' In hiccough..
Tectonic plates in Iceland. The tectonic plates whose turbulent interactions formed Iceland, are the Eurasian tectonic plate and the North American tectonic plate. Spanning the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Iceland emerged as a result of the divergent, spreading, boundary between these two plates and the activity of IcelandÂ´s own hotspot or mantle plume.
Iceland is splitting along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - a divergent boundary between the North American and Eurasian Plates, that owes its very existence to the molten rock, or magma, that wells up through the rifts along the ridge. Scientists believe Iceland rose from the sea floor about 20 million years ago.