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.
Within Iceland, volcanic activity in the last 10,000 years has been centred on two active zones, the first running from Reykjanes to the Langjoekull langjÃ¶kull icecap and the second from The Westman islands to The Melrakkasletta melrakkaslÃ©tta peninsula in the. north easthere are around 30 volcanic systems in Iceland, broadly divided into three types: Strato volcanoes, e.g. Eyjafjallajoekull, ÃrÃ¦fajÃ¶kull, Oeraefajoekull. Ã¶rÃ¦fajÃ¶kull snaefellsjoekull snÃ¦fellsjÃ¶kull these are volcanic systems which erupt, repeatedly over thousands even millions of years and build, up substantial mountains topped. by a crater