Sandstones from Mull and Morvern, most of which are from the Greensand formation, have been shown by X-ray diffraction to contain minerals of the plumbogummite group in very small amounts in the < 1·4 µm fraction. The minerals were concentrated by HF digestion of the clay minerals. X-ray spectrographic traces show concentrations of Sr, La, Ce, Yt, and Ba, and a semiquantitative spectrochemical analysis also shows a concentration of Ca and Pb and the presence of numerous rare-earth elements. Individual minerals, which have a complex composition and can not be assigned to any one named species, are disseminated throughout the rocks as particles with an estimated size of between 0·1 and 0·25 µm.