台湾海峡重矿物平均分布0.95%,其分布由西岸向东岸递减;由北部经台湾浅滩朝粤东方向缓慢递减。碎屑矿物46种,以角闪石、绿帘石、磁铁矿、钛铁矿、褐铁矿和片状矿物为主,它们占重矿物含量的67%。据主要重矿物含量将海峡分成8个矿物组合区。碎屑矿物来自海峡两岸基岩,通过河流搬运入海,有部分片状矿物为海峡以北的物质随浙闽沿岸流进入海峡而沉积。其海绿石是台湾西岸、澎湖岛第三系或第四系含海绿石岩层剥蚀后搬运入海沉积而成的。台湾浅滩的残留沉积物为晚更新世低海面时期的河口滨海相沉积物。由于处在开放的海洋环境,至今没有接受现代沉积。残留沉积物中的磁铁矿、钛铁矿、锆石等重矿物相对富集,含量高于近源海域,有可能赋存浅海砂矿。 The mean distribution of heavy minerals in the Taiwan Strait was 0.95%, with its distribution decreasing from the west coast to the east coast. From the north to Taiwan, it gradually declined towards the east. 46 kinds of detrital minerals, mainly amphibole, epidote, magnetite, ilmenite, limonite and flake minerals, which account for 67% of the heavy mineral content. The strait is divided into eight mineral assemblages based on major heavy mineral contents. Debris minerals come from the bedrock of both sides of the Taiwan Strait and are transported into the sea by rivers. Some of the flake minerals are deposited along the Zhejiang-Fujian coastal flow into the Strait along the north of the Strait. Its glauconite is Taiwan’s West Bank, Penghu Island Tertiary or quaternary line with the sea greenstone rock denudation moved into the sea after deposition. Residual deposits from the Taiwan Shoal are estuarine coastal sediments during the Late Pleistocene low sea level. Due to its open ocean environment, so far no modern sediments have been accepted. Residues in the sediments of magnetite, ilmenite, zircon and other heavy minerals are relatively rich, higher than the waters near the source, there may be shallow sea sand deposits.