Can anyone recommend a good text book or papers on the red colored, carbonate free paleosol? What are the physical features? How do you identify them in the field? What is their geochememistry?
Regarding ancient paleosols, check out papers by Joeckel on the Pennsylvanian and Permian vertic paleosols of North America. Just do a Google Scholar search on "Joeckel paleosols" and you should see them...
You say 'the' red coloured, carbonate-free plaeosol. Presumably you meant the one draping the lansdscape of the Bengal Basin at the time of the last glacial maximum?
If so, what you want is included in the attached papers.