E. Dale Jackson
Everett Dale Jackson | |
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Dale Jackson (right) with astronauts C.C. Williams, Frank Borman and Gene Cernan at Sunset Crater on April 30, 1964 | |
| Born | November 29, 1925 Fresno, California, U.S. |
| Died | July 28, 1978 (aged 52) |
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| Awards | NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geology |
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| Thesis | Primary textures and mineral associations in the ultramafic zone of the Stillwater complex, Montana (1960) |
Everett Dale Jackson (November 29, 1925 – July 28, 1978) was an American geologist. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he earned his doctorate in 1960, he was involved with the geological training of astronauts, the planning and preparation of lunar exploration missions, and the dissemination of their discoveries. As co-chief scientist of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) leg 55 that drilled the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain in 1977, he found the Hawaiian hotspot theory of its formation to be valid.