New SIMS zircon U–Pb ages indicate eruption of adakite-like lavas at Anar, Iran at ca. 1 to 2 Ma.
Extreme depletion in Y, HFSE and HREE relative to LREE and MREE in the lavas
Slab melting and fractionation-related models are unlikely in generating the adakitic signature.
Partial melting of juvenile source rocks in thickened lower crust makes better sense in view of the age and geochemical data.
The previous concept of an ‘adakitic province’ no longer holds.