Abstract: In the Upper Tertiary of the Western, Northern and Eastern pr.rts of the Tarim Basin, heavy minerals exhibit epidote-hornblende combination with dominating irregular and few roundshaped grains in the Xiy u Formation, hornblende-epidote combination in the Upper Atushi Formation and Garnet-epidote combination in the lower Atushi Formation without round grains, garnet - zircon combination in the Jidike and Talake Formation, Comparison of the heavy mineral data shows that “the wide grey green strip” of the top of the Miocene Jidike Formation in the Northern Tarim is not correlated to that (which is Pliocene) appeared in the Eastern Tarim. Therefore, strip nature of heavy minerals suggested by Pettijohn is applicable in practice.