Taiwan Shoal,a Magnitude Storage of Sand Resources

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.