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.
Divergent plate margins are also known as rift systems or mid-oceanic ridges. Rifts occur where two crustal plates are being ripped apart. This tear in the crust allows magma from the mantle to erupt at the surface. This process can be readily observed in Iceland which sits directly on the Atlantic mid-oceanic ridge. The island nation of Iceland was formed by the historic eruptions of volcanoes along the rift system.