台湾浅滩的沉积物由分选优、磨圆度很好的中细砂组成,其中含有数量较丰的贝壳碎片、海滩岩和玄武岩砾等。以水深30 M计算,浅滩的总面积为1.5x104kM2。浅滩砂一直在巨大暴风浪和合成海流的作用下处于改造和运动状态,浅滩上几乎没有或极少底栖生物,可称为海底“沙漠“。由于浅滩砂数量巨大而浅滩区水浅,它将是一项潜力很大的建材砂矿资源,也是海峡两岸共同的天然财富。下一步的勘研工作必须两岸海洋科技界和产业界联合进行,这片浅滩砂必将造福于两岸人民。Taiwan Shoal is made of a huge amount of sands.Its area is about 1.5×104 km2 at a depth of 30 m.The shoal sands are composed of medium-coarse sands with good degree of sorting and psephicity,mixed up with a lot of shell fragments and gravels of beach rock and basalt.Under the action of storm waves and strong currents,the sands are always in moving.As a result,the shoal,or the so-called sea bottom dessert,is hardly for benthos living.However,it will become building material resources with great potential and benefit to Taiwan and mainland of China in future.So the scientists from two banks of Taiwan Strait should further work together to protect the resources
