Volcanoes on the Moon

Meton: the clover leaf shaped lava flooded plain located close to the northern rim of the moon. Image compiled from video clips taken with my Canon 600D DSLR through my 127mm refractor with a 3x Barlow lens.

More or less in the middle of this group of mare lava flooded craters are two shield volcanoes and extrusive  lava.  To my eye there is also a number of smaller volcanic domes which are a type of shield volcano found in a number of locations on the near-side of the moon's surface.

Enlargement of part of my image showing the position and peak of one of the shield volcanoes and the lighter coloured extensive extrusive lava flows

A shield volcano is a type of volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid magma flows. They are named for their large size and low profile, resembling a warrior's shield lying on the ground. This is caused by the highly fluid lava they erupt, which travels farther than lava erupted from stratovolcanoes. This results in the steady accumulation of broad sheets of lava, building up the shield volcano's distinctive form.

Credit for this image: James Stuby based on NASA image - Reprocessed Lunar Orbiter 4 image rotated and cropped in Gimp. The original image is in the public domain because it is a work of the U.S. Government (NASA). Immediate source: Lunar and Planetary Institute, Lunar Orbiter Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter 4, image 165, h1

Credits: Wikipedia, NASA and James Stuby and Virtual Moon - Christian Legrand and Patrick Chevalley.