Concerned with denudation chronology ( the reconstruction of long-term landform history ), he became involved with study of the origin of tors in Scotland, on Dartmoor, the Pennines and South Africa.
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Rudbergs Ph . D . thesis dealt with the large scale geomorphology and denudation chronology of V�sterbotten in northern Sweden, he subsequently continued to work on large scale geomorphology of Scandinavia while also making scientific contributions dealing with wind erosion, cliff retreat, and periglacial mass movements.