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 a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in March. On 14 April, the eruption entered a new explosive phase which was to bring European airspace to a standstill.The eruption threw thousands of tonnes of mineral ash into the air-forced higher by steam plumes created as glacial ice melted.he ash cloud produced by the eruption of a sub-glacial volcano in Iceland brought chaos to the European air industry between 14 and 21 April.