The weighted mean concentrations of cobalt, copper, gallium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, vanadium, zinc, and zirconium (and also of iron) are given for 28 soil profiles from Queensland. The concentrations of the same elements in 118 surface soils are presented as histograms. Soils of any one taxonomic group have characteristic, but not unique, trace element properties. The concentrations in surface soils of most of the elements have well-defined frequency distributions.