North China Archean dome-and-basin structures; arc plutons, superimposed folds, or sagduction?

Archean dome-and-basin structures are widely interpreted to have formed in a stagnant-lid drip-tectonic or sagduction setting, unlike modern Earth. In the North China Craton, apparent dome-and-basin structures in eastern gneiss terrains are bordered by a contemporaneous 1800 km-long orogenic belt, exhibiting many classical hallmark indicators of plate boundary interactions found in Phanerozoic orogens, suggesting contrarily that plate tectonics was operating during formation of the domes. We solve this dilemma by showing that the domes-and-basins formed by a combination of fold interference, temporally constrained by felsic intrusion events, and folding of domal arc-related plutons. Strong deformation is related to overthrusting of nappes from the adjacent orogen, forming klippen, infolded with the gneisses, explaining the perplexing juxtaposition of plate tectonic and seemingly non-plate tectonic terrains so closely in space and time.