Monolithus (Graece μονόλιθος < μόνος 'unus' + λίθος 'saxum, lapis') est proprietas geologica quae ex uno magno saxo vel lapide constat, sicut nonnulli montes, vel ex una magna parte saxosa ut, vel intra, monumentum vel aedificium posita. Erosio conformationes geologicas plerumque detegit, quae saepe ex durissimo et solido saxo metamorphico vel igneo constant.

Vocabulum in architectura cum vocabulo megalitho magnopere congruit, quod autem ad praehistoriam usitate adhibetur, et in contextibus architecturae ex saxo caesa quae in lapide solido aptae manet, ut in templo monolithico, vel pro saxis praeter modum magnis adhiberi potest, sicut obelisci, statuae, columnae monolithicae, vel magnae architrabes, quae magnum spatium post caesum fortasse motae sunt. Ad magna erratica glacialia a viribus naturalibus mota adhiberi potest.

Monolithi geologici

Inter magnos monolithos bene notos sunt res sequentes.

Africa

• Saxum Aso, Nigeria
• Ben Amera, Mauritania
• Mons Brandbergensis, Namibia
• Sibebe, Swazia
• Sphinx, Aegyptus
• Saxum Zumana, Nigeria

Antarctica

• Monolithus Scullinianus

Asia

• Bellary, India
• Mons Kelam, Indonesia
• Madhugiri Betta, India
• Collis Sangla, Pakistania
• Savandurga, India
• Sigiriya, Taprobane
• Yana, India

Australia

• Bald Rock, prope Tenterfield in Nova Cambria Australi
• Mons Pinus in Victoria
• Mons Coolum, Terra Reginae
• Mons Wudinna in Australia Australi
• Uluru in Territorio Septentrionali
• Mons Augustus in Australia Occidentali

Europa

• Kalamos, Anaphe in Graecia
• Columna Katskhi in Georgia
• Saxum Loganianum, Treen, Cornubia in Anglia
• Penyal d'Ifac Calpe, Communitas Valentiana in Hispania
• Saxum Gibraltarense in Gibraltaria
• Saxum Monoecianum, Monoecus in Principatu Monoeci

America Septentrionalis

Civitates Foederatae

• Angels Landing, Zion National Park, Uta
• Beacon Rock, Columbia River Gorge, Vasingtonia
• Bottleneck Peak and Moon, Sids Mountain, Uta
• Castle Rock, Pineville, Virginia Occidentalis
• Chimney Rock, Bayard, Nebrasca
• Courthouse and Jail Rocks, Bridgeport, Nebrasca
• Devils Tower, Vyomina
• El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California
• Enchanted Rock, Llano County, Texia
• Great White Throne, Zion National Park, Uta
• Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California
• Haystack Rock, Clatsop County, Oregonia
• Looking Glass Rock, Transylvania County, Carolina Septentrionalis
• Morro Rock, Morro Bay, California
• Scotts Bluff National Monument, Gering, Nebrasca
• Shiprock, San Juan County, Novum Mexicum
• Stone Mountain, Stone Mountain, Georgia
• Tooth of Time, Cimarron, Novum Mexicum
• Wolf Rock, Linn County, Oregonia

Canada

• Stawamus Chief, Squamish, Columbia Britannica

Mexicum

• La Peña de Bernal, Queretaro^[1][2][3][4]
• Lapis Solis

America Australis

• El Peñón in Columbia
• Pão de Açúcar, Brasilia
• Pedra da Gávea, Brasilia, maximus orbis terrarum monolithus secundum litus
• Torres del Paine, Tsilia

Monolithi Extraterrestries

• Monolithus Phobos in Phobos

Monolithi monumentales

Structura quae in tota parte ex matrice cingente vel promuntorio saxoso caesa est.^[5]

• Lapis calendricus Aztecus, "Lapis Solis"
• Templum Sanctu Georgii Lalibelae in Aethiopia, una ex multus templis monolithicis in Aethiopia
• Lapis Coyolxauhqui, monolithus Aztecus
• Speluncae Elloranae, unus ex locus UNESCO Mundi Hereditatis
• Magna Sphinx Gizensis

• Gomateswara vel Dominus Bahubali in Sravanabelagola in Karnataka
• Manzanar National Historic Landmark, Civitates Foederatae
• Obeliscus
• Stonehenge (nonnullos monolithos continet)

Nexus interni

• Architectura monolithica
• Megalithus
• Monadnock
• Monolithi in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Notae

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad monolithus spectant.

• De Uluru, www.ga.gov.au
• De Uluru, www.abc.net.au