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Greenland sits on the North American tectonic plate, and France sits on the Eurasian plate. These are two large fragments of the Earth's crust (or the lithosphere to be more correct). All plates are constantly moving, and there is a general drift caused by the circulation of heat in the mantle (or asthenosphere). The general trend currently is for the North American and Eurasian plates to move away from each other, the line along which this movement happens is marked by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. So, Greenland is moving away from France, but only by a few millimetres per year.

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