A Turkish scientist has discovered 1.9 billion years old soil in Canada. Ali Polat, an academic at the Canada Windsor University Faculty of Science, told AA correspondent in his hometown Elazig, eastern province of Turkey, that they found the soil around Lake Superior. Polat said that he was working on a dissonant platform in the area since 2007 and after conducting a detailed study on the red igneous rocks under the platform he found out that those rocks were actually 1.9 billion years old soil after a 5-year study. He said the soil was an important source for understanding the chemical evolution of the atmosphere 1.9 billion years ago. Polat said that his study was printed in the October edition of the Chemical Geology magazine in 2012.