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 the largest island on the ridge because of the additional volcanism caused by the hot spot under the country, which moves slowly towards the northwest across it. These unique circumstances on the ridge probably are the reason for the countryâs existence, because the tectonic movement of the plates and the related volcanism would not have sufficed. The country probably would have looked very differently if the hot spot were the sole reason for its creation, probably something similar to Hawaii.