Volcano-pluton connection: Perspectives on material and process linkages, Searchlight pluton and Highland Range volcanic sequence, Nevada, USA

The Searchlight pluton (SLP) and coeval Highland Range volcanic sequence (HRV) have been suggested to represent intruded and erupted counterparts, and the 15 km tilted crustal section in which they are exposed has been presented as an illustration of the anatomy of a large, upper crustal, intermediate to silicic magmatic system. We summarize herein three decades of published and unpublished research on this system, emphasizing new work on its final silicic products that verifies direct connections between SLP and HRV and provides insights about storage, extraction, transport, and eruption processes in the waning stages of the system.