The great period of land growth is over: The book "The Authentic Story of Taiwan," published by scholars of Taiwanese history at the Academia Sinica, when describing the development of the island by the early immigrants, does not forget to mention that Taiwan's western coast is a plain formed by the accumulation of waterborne sand, mud and gravel, and that the coastal plain is still rising upwards.
中研院台灣史學者所出版的「先民的足跡」一書，在描繪早期先民開發之時，還不忘提到台灣西海岸，是由泥沙、碎石沖積而成的平原，沿岸平原仍然繼續在上升。