Environment and Sustainability
Tristan Ashcroft
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Tristan J. Ashcroft is a lecturer in geology and other Earth-related topics. He has been teaching at Ursinus since 2012. In the summer months he is typically somewhere west of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains looking at rocks, either conducting research or helping to teach at a geology field camp.
Department
Degrees
- B.A., Juniata College
- M.S. University of Albany
- Ph.D., University of Nevada
Teaching
Geology: The Earth Around Us
Fueling Society
Environmental Applications of GIS
Research Interests
Dr. Ashcroft’s research interests are best described as structural geology and tectonics, although under that umbrella the specific topics he investigates often vary from field area to field area as the rocks allow. While he still dabbles in Appalachian geology, he is now primarily a Nevada geologist; and has spent the last decade studying late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic deformation in eastern Nevada.
Recent Work
Schoonmaker, A., Kidd, W.S.F. and Ashcroft, T., 2016, Magmatism and extension in the
foreland and near-trench region of collisional and convergent tectonic systems:
Geoscience Canada, v. 43, p. 159-178.
Ashcroft, T.J. and Holm-Denoma, C.S., 2010, Was late Paleozoic deformation along the Cordillera a driving force for Ancestral Rocky Mountain uplifts?: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, n. 5, p. A-317
Ashcroft, T.J., Cashman, P.H., Trexler, J.H., Jr., Davydov, V.I., and Snyder, W.S., 2006, Late Paleozoic deformation in the northern Adobe Range, Elko county, Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, n. 7, p. A-449.
Ashcroft, T.J., Cashman, P.H., Trexler, J.H., Jr., and Snyder, W.S., 2004, Geometry of post-lower Triassic deformation, Coal Mine Basin, Adobe Range, Elko County, Nevada: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, n. 5, p. A-424.
Ashcroft, T. J. and Kidd, W.S.F., 2002, Geology and geochemistry of the Jonestown Volcanics, Pennsylvania: Abstracts with Programs – Geological Society of America, V. 34, n. 1, p. A-20.