Given below are two statements: Statement-I Most of the world's geothermal sites are located in the circum pacific belt known as 'rim of fire'. Statement II : Himalayan geothermal fields in India are also part of 'rim of fire'. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:
Statement I is correct but statement II is incorrect.
This question concerns the global distribution of geothermal energy sites and the 'Ring of Fire'.
Statement I: Most of the world's geothermal sites lie along the circum-Pacific belt popularly called the 'Ring of Fire', a zone of intense volcanic and seismic activity around the margins of the Pacific Ocean, where plate boundaries bring heat close to the surface. This is correct.
Statement II: India's Himalayan geothermal fields, however, are NOT part of the Ring of Fire. They arise from the continental collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates (Himalayan orogenic belt), which is a completely different tectonic setting from the circum-Pacific subduction belt. So this statement is incorrect.
Since the first statement is true and the second is false, the response 'Statement I correct but Statement II incorrect' is right.
Why the other choices fail: marking both correct wrongly places the Himalayas in the Ring of Fire; marking both incorrect denies the well-established Pacific concentration of geothermal sites; the reverse pairing is ruled out because Statement I is genuinely true.
Takeaway: The Ring of Fire hosts most geothermal sites, but the Himalayan geothermal belt is collision-related and lies outside it.
Correct answer: Statement I is correct but statement II is incorrect.
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