Well Dmcg, I am afraid you have the advantage in that challenge, as unlike you as an avid reader of geological journals and me a poor layman! And the royal society?.....I got an idea that was begun by the creationist Isaac Newton . But anyway, the general theory of evolution (GTE) encompasses much more than geology , but perhaps you will know from those journals what their take is on some things ,like, tree trunks buried across supposed millennia rather than the initially exposed upper parts rotting away. Or how fine detail in soft organisms could be preserved if not buried quickly as would be consistent with the flood event.    I realise of course, that geology and associated evolutionary ideas does now accommodate some catastrophism.....WHICH ADDS A LEVEL OF A GET OUT IMO. Anyway since you ask for chapter and verse, I will ask the same . Well actually I don't expect it.....and neither did you did you !