Kīlauea
... Kīlauea's eruptive history has been a long and active one its very name means "spewing" or "much spreading" in the Hawaiian language, referring to its frequent outpouring of lava ... The earliest lavas from the volcano, date back to its submarine preshield stage, and have been recovered by ROVs from its submerged slopes other flows have been recovered through core samples, but as lavas younger than 1,000 years cover 90 percent of the volcano, the oldest exposed lavas date back a youthful 2,800 and 2,100 years ...